Southwest Airlines says passengers on a flight from Denver to Houston were evacuated Friday after a passenger’s phone caught fire.
Dallas-based Southwest Airlines said Flight 3316 was still at the gate preparing to depart when a passenger’s cell phone battery caught fire.
According to the airline, the crew extinguished the phone and a nearby seat that caught fire. Passengers evacuated the aircraft, with those in the front using the door/jet bridge and those in the back using an emergency slide…