Source: Simon Hradecky | www.avherald.com

A United Airbus A320-200, registration N437UA performing flight UA-1456 from Newark,NJ (USA) to Nassau (Bahamas), was enroute at FL360 about 140nm east of Daytona Beach,FL (USA) when the crew decided to divert to Daytona Beach due a passenger’s battery charger suffering from a thermal runaway emitting heat, smoke and fire in the passenger’s bag. Cabin crew extinhguished and secured the device while the flight crew landed the aircraft safely in Daytona Beach about 30 minutes later.

Daytona Beach Airport reported the battery charger caught fire, the fire was contained within the passenger’s bag. Cabin crew put the bag into a fire retardant container.

The aircraft departed Daytona Beach after about 70 minutes on the ground and reached Nassau with a delay of 2 hours.