A thrilling scene of an airline passenger plane: the passenger’s iPhone suddenly caught fire!

2016-03-28 「 2608 words / 5 minute 」
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在现在狭窄无比、容易造成幽闭恐惧症的飞机中,引起乘客愤怒的事情可以说各种各样。
There are many ways of inflaming passengers on today's claustrophobically cramped airlines.
安娜·克莱尔采取了一种无心却新奇的方式,上周四,她正乘坐从华盛顿贝灵汉飞往夏威夷的阿拉斯加航班。
Anna Crail, however, managed it in quite a novel and inadvertent way. She was flying from Bellingham, Washington to Hawaii with Alaska Air on last Thursday.
突然间,她身上开始冒烟,好吧,其实是她身上的iPhone 6。她接受KOMO新闻采访时表示:"当手机着火后,我觉着我们就要坠机了,你知道,我那时候就在想,天哪,飞机着火了!"
Suddenly she started to emit flames. Well, her iPhone 6 did. "When it started I thought we were going down, and I was like, 'oh my god, there's a fire on the plane,'" she told KOMO News.
这场火,看起来是从她的手机开始着的。她乘坐的航班航程约为90分钟,需要穿过太平洋。克莱尔告诉KOMO,“突然间,大约八英尺的火焰从我的iPhone里冒了出来,我立马把手机弹到地上,手机滚到某人的座位下,火焰变得越来越大,好多人都站了起来。”
The fire, it seems, came from her own phone. And the plane was 90 minutes from Honolulu, over the Pacific Ocean." All of the sudden there was like 8-inch flames coming out of my phone," she told KOMO. "And I flipped it off onto the ground and it got under someone's seat, and the flames were just getting higher and a bunch of people stood up."
在飞机上看到火,可不是常见的事情。蛇你肯定看过,但大火可真不一定。
It's not every day you see flames on a plane. Snakes, certainly. But not flames.
美国联邦航空管理局表示现在正在调查该事件。一位发言人称,这架波音737已经安全着陆,没有人员伤亡,也没有设备受损,当然,除了那只iPhone。
The Federal Aviation Administration told me that it's investigating the incident. A spokesman added that the Boeing 737 landed safely, with no damage to humans or machine. Other than the iPhone, that is.
阿拉斯加航空以及苹果公司对于询问都没有第一时间做出回应。
Alaska Air and Apple didn't immediately reply to requests for comment.
这其实并不是第一次手机突然在飞机上着火。5年前,澳大利亚航空上的一名乘客突然发现自己的iPhone开始发红发热,并冒起了烟。
This isn't even the first time a phone has burst into flames on a flight. Five years ago, a passenger on an Australian flight suddenly noticed his iPhone began to glow and emit smoke.
手机的确时不时地会着火,但是原因却不太清楚。去年缅因州的一名八年级学生,突然听到她的iPhone发出爆裂声,然后她的后兜就开始冒烟。两年前,一位香港男士表示,由于他的三星Galaxy S4着火,他的屋子被烧光了。
Phones do occasionally catch fire, with the causes not always being entirely obvious. Last year, an eighth-grader in Maine suddenly heard a pop from her iPhone and her back pocket began to smoke. Two years ago, a Hong Kong man blamed his Samsung Galaxy S4 for burning his house down.
大家都将原因指向过热的电池,或者说,边充电边接打电话、使用不正规充电器等。
Fingers get pointed at overheating batteries and, when a phone blows up while charging overnight, unauthorized chargers.
这样的事故毕竟很少见,在克莱尔的事件中,通过机组人员的共同努力,火很快就被扑灭了。不过我在想,克莱尔的春假是否会像她乘坐的航班这样刺激。
Such incidents are rare. In Crail's case, the fire was quickly put out with the help of the crew. I wonder if anything on Crail's spring break was as exciting as her flight.