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A fire on a JetBlue Airways flight led to the evacuation of more than 160 passengers at New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport, US authorities said.
Five people suffered minor injuries and 167 passengers used emergency slides to evacuate the plane, which landed in New York from Barbados at about 9 p.m. EST, according to WCBS-TV.
The crew of JetBlue Flight 662 reported a laptop computer on fire and emitting thick smoke in the forward cabin.
, JetBlue Flight 662 was evacuated with service from Bridgetown, Barbados (BGI) shortly after landing at New York’s JFK Airport due to reports of smoke from a device,” JetBlue spokesman Derek Dombrowski said in a statement. A laptop for one of the passengers.
Sean Wade, one of the plane’s eyewitnesses, said: “I am a captain who ran out of the plane’s control room, holding a fire extinguisher in his hand and put out the smoke on the valley.”