An iPhone 6 Plus exploded in the pocket of a student at school last week, the incident leading to the evacuation of the entire class due to the potential danger. The child was during a lesson when the terminal suddenly overheated and started to emit smoke and sparks, and after being thrown to the floor, it caught fire.
The teacher evacuated the entire class and called the authorities for help, the small fire that broke out on the terminal extinguished very quickly after it appeared. According to the student, that iPhone 6 Plus terminal had been bought only 6 months before and it only had a crack generated by a blow, so the battery exploded because it was defective.
Considering that the iPhone 6 Plus terminal exploded while it was in the student's pants, he also created a hole in his jeans, as expected. The good part is that the student was not injured in any kind of explosion, so we are only talking about the destruction of the terminal and a scare that the child had in its base.
An iPhone 6 Plus exploded in a student's pocket
This explosion comes in a context where the problems with Galaxy Note 7 explosions have stopped, but problems have arisen for iPhone 7, and now even for iPhone 6 Plus. Unlike the Samsung cases, in this situation no one was injured and everything was just a scare for the children in that class.
"I felt this crazy, hot burning in my leg. Right as class was starting, my phone started smoking in my pocket. It was a fire. Out of nowhere, we heard a fizzing and a popping sound. Suddenly a great mass of smoke comes out of his pocket. "Everyone was kind of like, 'What is that? What is that? And then we all realized that's his phone that combusted in the middle of class."
iPhone 6 Plus was launched by the Apple company in 2014, so we are talking about a 2-year-old smartphone and it is not known where the student bought it from. If the terminal was bought second-hand and did not have the original battery, then Apple is not to blame, but you never know the truth and until one or the other Apple remains guilty of the incident.
