{"id":374924,"date":"2026-02-24T11:23:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T01:23:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/alaska-airlines-passengers-arrive-7-hours-late-power-bank-fire\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T11:23:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T01:23:15","slug":"alaska-airlines-passengers-arrive-at-destination-7-hours-late-after-power-bank-catches-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=374924","title":{"rendered":"Alaska Airlines Passengers Arrive At Destination 7 Hours Late After Power Bank Catches Fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A scheduled flight on <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"256053\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/horizon-air\/\"  >Horizon Air<\/a><\/span> on February 22 ended up diverting after it appeared that the power bank caught on fire after experiencing a <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/lithium-ion-batteries-pose-flight-risk\/\" >thermal runaway<\/a>. This led to the <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"3525601\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/embraer-e175\/\"  >Embraer E175<\/a><\/span> diverting back to Witchita, and the passenger was taken to hospital to be treated for what is reported to be minor burns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A power bank on an Alaska Airlines flight caught fire mid-air, forcing an emergency landing and delaying passengers&#8217; arrival by seven hours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,476,516,1981,3217,1725,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-374924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-airlines","category-alaska-airlines","category-embraer-e175","category-flight-delay","category-horizon-air","category-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=374924"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":374925,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374924\/revisions\/374925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=374924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=374924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=374924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}