JetBlue flight makes emergency landing after battery fire

A JetBlue flight from New York to San Francisco was diverted on Tuesday after a lithium battery caught fire in the aircraft’s cabin, authorities said.

JetBlue Flight 915 left JFK International for San Francisco International but was diverted to Gerald R. Ford International in Grand Rapids, Michigan, at around 8 p.m. ET, after the battery from a passenger’s laptop caught fire, according to the Federal Aviation Administration.

Officials at Gerald R. Ford International said the aircraft had 158 people on board and that the flight landed “without incident.”…

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