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[00:00.16]A plane was evacuated Wednesday in Louisville, Kentucky,
[00:06.24]after a passenger reported smoke coming from a Samsung smartphone.
[00:14.80]All passengers were safe after getting off the Southwest Airlines plane.
[00:22.44]The plane was to travel to Baltimore, Maryland.
[00:29.88]The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration confirmed in a statement
[00:36.84]that a Samsung phone had caused the smoke.
[00:41.52]The agency did not say which Samsung model was involved
[00:49.48]and said it is continuing to investigate the incident.
[00:55.92]Samsung also did not say which smartphone model caused the emergency.
[01:05.52]The company said in a statement that it would examine the device.
[01:14.04]Samsung issued a recall of its new Galaxy Note 7 device last month
[01:22.80]after receiving several reports of overheating problems.
[01:31.00]The company said the overheating was linked to problems with batteries
[01:38.16]that caused some phones to catch fire.
[01:42.24]The recall reportedly covered at least 2.5 million phones worldwide.
[01:53.16]Sarah Green is the wife of the airplane passenger whose phone overheated.
[02:02.28]Green told the media that the phone was a new Samsung Galaxy Note 7.
[02:10.20]She said her husband, Brian,
[02:14.36]recently got the phone as a replacement following the Samsung recall.
[02:23.24]Green told Louisville's Courier-Journal newspaper
[02:29.08]that her husband called from someone else's phone to explain what happened.
[02:38.20]He told her the phone began making popping noises
[02:43.40]and started giving off smoke after he turned it off.
[02:49.68]"He took it out of his pocket and threw it on the ground," she told the newspaper.
[02:58.32]The plane had not yet taken off.
[03:02.80]An official with Louisville's Metro Fire Department
[03:07.28]confirmed the passenger threw the phone on the ground after it started smoking.
[03:15.12]The official said the phone caused minor damage to the floor where the device landed.
[03:23.48]The Federal Aviation Administration issued a warning
[03:29.36]to airplane passengers last month about the Samsung phones.
[03:36.52]It urged passengers not to use Galaxy Note 7 devices during flights.
[03:46.68]It also urged passengers not to put them in checked baggage.
[03:56.28]Flight attendants on many airlines have also added a warning
[04:02.28]about the Samsung devices during pre-flight safety demonstrations.
[04:09.84]I'm Bryan Lynn.