Accidental fire in backpack causes stir at Sky Harbor
backpack
on fire almost got tossed onto a US
Airways flight at Phoenix Sky Harbor
International Airport on Tuesday, but a
baggage handler saw the smoke and patted
it out.
Flight 200, a 10 a.m. departure to San
Antonio, had already boarded about 50 of
its 108 passengers at Terminal 4 when
the baggage handler grabbed the red
backpack that was described as
"unusually hot" and "smoking," said Lt.
Rick Gehlbach of the Phoenix police
airport bureau.
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