Story By: John Feng, Sub Editor: Joseph Golder, Agency: Asia Wire Report

These images show a charred and melted plane cabin wall after a passenger’s power bank caught fire in mid-air and causing an emergency landing.

The scare happened aboard China Eastern Airlines Flight 2809 shortly after takeoff on 4th September.

MU2809 left Nanjing Lukou International Airport in East China’s Jiangsu Province at 7:16am local time bound for the city of Xiamen in the neighbouring province of Fujian.

However, the plane was quickly turned around when a passenger’s power bank suddenly erupted and caught fire mid-air, with the blaze burning the wall and causing smoke to fill the cabin.

The Airbus A320 was directed back to Nanjing and landed at 8:24am.

In a statement, China Eastern said it took emergency measures to ensure passenger safety.

All of its passengers were safely evacuated from the aircraft and none was injured during the scare.

The airline said replacement flights had already been arranged for the inconvenienced passengers.

The fire is believed to have started with the power bank’s lithium-ion batteries, but the precise cause of the blaze is still being investigated by authorities.

The airline did not reveal whether the mobile charging battery was in use at the time of the accident.

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