{"id":223936,"date":"2025-10-19T06:01:16","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T06:01:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/223936\/"},"modified":"2025-10-19T06:01:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T06:01:16","slug":"battery-fire-aboard-air-china-flight-to-south-korea-forces-emergency-landing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/223936\/","title":{"rendered":"Battery fire aboard Air China flight to South Korea forces emergency landing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">An Air China flight from Hangzhou to Seoul was forced to make an emergency landing in Shanghai on Saturday after a lithium battery caught fire in the plane\u2019s cabin.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">In a statement on social media, Air China confirmed the incident.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cOn October 18, on flight CA139 from Hangzhou to Incheon, a lithium battery in a passenger\u2019s carry-on luggage stored in the overhead compartment spontaneously ignited,\u201d the airline said.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The crew handled the situation quickly and no one was injured, it added.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cTo ensure flight safety\u201d, the plane had to \u201cmake an unscheduled landing\u201d at Shanghai Pudong International Airport.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Air China indicated the flight took off on Saturday at 9.47am and had been scheduled to land at Incheon International Airport at 12.20pm.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Passengers aboard the Air China flight on Saturday were heard shouting \u201churry up\u201d in Korean. Photo: Handout\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1b63e765-817b-44aa-8c0c-9ea2c1ef5aae_c2b844d0.jpg\" title=\"Passengers aboard the Air China flight on Saturday were heard shouting \u201churry up\u201d in Korean. Photo: Handout\"\/>Passengers aboard the Air China flight on Saturday were heard shouting \u201churry up\u201d in Korean. Photo: Handout<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Air China flight from Hangzhou to Seoul was forced to make an emergency landing in Shanghai on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":223937,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[107234,107231,8580,45,49,48,107230,25427,107235,107233,60768,6549,107232,18262,41397],"class_list":["post-223936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-air-busan","tag-air-china","tag-beijing","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-china-southern-airlines","tag-hangzhou","tag-hong-kongs-civil-aviation-department","tag-incheon","tag-lithium-battery","tag-shanghai","tag-shanghai-pudong-airport","tag-south-korea","tag-weibo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223936\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}