JetBlue Flight Diverted After Lithium-Ion Battery Starts Smoking

A fire on board forced a JetBlue flight to make an emergency landing Tuesday. Airport officials said the fire was caused by a lithium battery in an electronic device. Flight 915 left New York’s JFK airport early Tuesday evening and was headed for San Francisco, but not long after the flight took off, smoke started pouring out of a backpack. That’s when the pilot decided to divert to Grand Rapids, Michigan. "We’re at 35,000 feet and all of a sudden we hear an announcement and we look back in row 25 and we saw everybody standing up and smoke coming around and we didn’t know what was going on," said passenger Alan Honniball who was on the flight with his daughter Kailey.