Galaxy Note 7 with updated battery catches fire on plane

As if the news about the recall for Samsungs Note 7 isn't bad enough, it just took another level. A person on a plane noticed his Note 7 replacement catch fire, this was an updated and thus declared 'safe' model.

The plane was still at the gates so everybody boarded the plane safely, no injuries were reported reports the Verge:

Brian Green, owner of the Note 7 confirmed that he had picked up the new phone at an AT&T store on September 21st. A photograph of the box shows the black square symbol that indicates a replacement Note 7 and the owner said it had a green battery icon. The owner (Brian Green) stated he had powered down the phone as requested by the flight crew and put it in his pocket when it began smoking. He dropped it on the floor of the plane and a "thick grey-green angry smoke" was pouring out of the device. Green’s colleague went back onto the plane to retrieve some personal belongings and said that the phone had burned through the carpet and scorched the subfloor of the plane. He said the phone was at around 80 percent of battery capacity when the incident occurred and that he only used a wireless charger since receiving the device.

Last week a man in China had a similar issues as reported on Bloomberg. Samsung did not yet have a comment about the incident. We assume they are note amused ;)