This iPhone exploded on a routine airplane flight in Australia.

It seemed like a regular flight from Lismore to Sydney, Australia.  A passenger boarded Regional Express flight ZL319 with his iPhone in his pocket.  The flight took off and everything was fine until heat and smoke started to pour from the passenger’s mobile phone.  Apparently a Regional Express passenger’s iPhone spontaneously burst into flames during a routine flight.  It’s the second instance of an iPhone exploding mid-flight in Australia alone; similar reports were made concerning the last generation iPhone in France in 2009.

“My iPhone was expanding in size in terms of its width,” said the second anonymous phone user, whose iPhone 3G blew up on a plane flight.  “[It] continued to grow in size.  Before long the phone refused to even turn on and … just expanded to what it looks like now.”

The iPhone has had a lot of problems, especially the iPhone 4.  From the alarm glitch that led to oversleeping around the country to the antenna problem that turns the iPhone into an expensive brick, there have been a lot of design flaws with the thing.  Is it any wonder that the battery might explode on a plane flight, too?  These batteries are a fickle thing; even if you take care of them, there are always design flaws that can turn your phone into a flaming hunk of poisonous plastic in your pocket.

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