Battery Fire Causes Emergency Plane Landing At Ford Airport

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CASCADE TOWNSHIP, Mich. (WOOD) — A Jet Blue plane was forced to land at Gerald R. Ford International Airport Tuesday evening after reports that a lithium battery on board caught fire.

Ford Airport said on Twitter that airport fire crews responded, but that the fire was out before the plane landed around 8 p.m. None of the 158 people on board were injured.

The airport says Flight 915 was headed from John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York to San Francisco International Airport.


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