An alarm came from my cell phone while waiting for takeoff at Cheongju Airport... No casualties

(Cheongju = Yonhap News) Reporter Seongmin Lee = A fire broke out in a passenger's cell phone on a passenger plane scheduled to take off from Cheongju Airport on the 10th, causing a commotion that forced all passengers to evacuate.

At 7:36 p.m. on this day, a fire broke out in a passenger's cell phone on a Jeju Air plane that was scheduled to depart from Cheongju Airport and head to Jeju.

The fire started from a cell phone held by a seated passenger before the plane headed to the runway.

It is said that the surrounding passengers immediately covered the cell phone with their clothes, and then the flight attendant put the cell phone in a lithium battery fire extinguishing pouch and immediately extinguished the fire.

It has been determined that there have been no casualties from this fire to date.

Due to smoke on board, all 167 passengers were evacuated from the plane, and Jeju Air is conducting exhaust work and reviewing whether the plane can be operated normally.