A British Airways flight landed safely at the Las Vegas airport on Monday after a cellphone caught fire on board, an airport spokesperson said.
Harry Reid International Airport spokesperson Amanda Mazzagatti said in an email that the flight called an alert due to a fire that was caused by the phone. The fire was extinguished and the aircraft landed safely and taxied to the gate, Mazzagatti said.
A spokesperson for the airline said in an email that customers disembarked normally.
British Airways flight 271 departed from London Heathrow Airport at 12:39 p.m. local time and arrived in Las Vegas at 2:33 p.m. Pacific Time, 22 minutes ahead of schedule, according to the flight tracking website FlightAware.com.
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