Cellphone catches fire on British Airways flight, lands safely in Las Vegas

A British Airways flight landed safely at the Las Vegas airport on Monday after a cellphone caught fire on board, an airport spokesperson said.

Harry Reid International Airport spokesperson Amanda Mazzagatti said in an email that the flight called an alert due to a fire that was caused by the phone. The fire was extinguished and the aircraft landed safely and taxied to the gate, Mazzagatti said.

A spokesperson for the airline said in an email that customers disembarked normally.

Mazzagatti said in a follow-up email that the flight, British Airways flight 271, was not a turnback or diverted flight.

The plane departed from London Heathrow Airport at 12:39 p.m. local time and arrived in Las Vegas at 2:33 p.m. pacific time, 22 minutes ahead of schedule, according to the flight tracking website FlightAware.com.