JetBlue flight evacuated at New York airport after passenger's laptop catches fire while taxing
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A passenger's laptop caught fire and started emitting smoke inside a JetBlue flight at New York's JFK airport on Saturday, forcing authorities to evacuate the plane with 167 souls on board. Officials from the FAA, JetBlue and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey said the aircraft was taxing to a gate at Terminal 5 when a lithium battery in a passenger’s laptop caught fire, the New York Daily News reported.
