Frontier A320 near Tampa on Feb 3rd 2018, LiOn fire on board
Last Update: February 4, 2018 / 16:43:10 GMT/Zulu time
Incident Facts
Date of incident
Feb 3, 2018
Classification
Incident
Airline
Frontier Airlines
Flight number
F9-1883
Departure
Orlando, United States
Destination
Phoenix, United States
Aircraft Registration
N221FR
Aircraft Type
Airbus A320
ICAO Type Designator
A320
The occurrence aircraft remained on the ground in Tampa for about 6 hours, then continued the flight and reached Phoenix with a delay of about 6:45 hours.
On Feb 5th 2018 the FAA reported a battery fire of a laptop occurred in the cabin, the fire was contained, two people received minor burns and were treated and released.
Incident Facts
Date of incident
Feb 3, 2018
Classification
Incident
Airline
Frontier Airlines
Flight number
F9-1883
Departure
Orlando, United States
Destination
Phoenix, United States
Aircraft Registration
N221FR
Aircraft Type
Airbus A320
ICAO Type Designator
A320
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