Cabin crew averts major incident on Kochi to Colombo flight - lithium battery pack

After the crew of a Sri Lankan airline flight carrying more than 200 passengers from Kochi to Colombo extinguished a medium-sized passenger plane, a major incident was avoided.
The airline said today that a flight fire caused by lithium batteries.
After the crew of a Sri Lankan airline flight carrying more than 200 passengers from Kochi to Colombo extinguished a medium-sized passenger plane, a major incident was avoided.
The airline said today that a flight fire caused by lithium batteries.
Shortly after the 70 th meal
A minute after the flight, the crew noticed smoke in the overhead trunk.
"The crew on UL 166 managed to avoid a major event that was considered to be caused by the ignition of lithium batteries or mobile phones in the passenger's hand luggage, the airline said in a statement.
None of the 202 passengers or crew members were injured, Airbus A330-
The statement said that 200 aircraft landed safely at Colombo Banar Naike International Airport (BIA) at the scheduled time ).
The crew immediately informed air traffic controllers in BIA that dangerous goods experts, firefighters and other safety-related personnel had greeted the aircraft upon arrival.
The report says passengers do not need emergency evacuation due to the situation being controlled, but disembark in the usual way.
Sri Lanka Airlines has launched an investigation into the incident.
On October 2016, SriLankan banned the carrying and use of "Samsung Note 7" on the plane ".
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