Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) asked all airlines to ban the use of Samsung Galaxy Note series of smartphones inside planes.
In recent incident Samsung smartphone caught fire inside a Chennai-bound IndiGo aircraft creating a scare among 175 passengers on-board but the plane made a safe landing.
The fire was reported inside the IndiGo aircraft coming from Singapore at the Chennai airport.
The DGCA had earlier banned the use of Samsung Galaxy Note 7 onboard an aircraft following a series of incidents of the smartphone’s battery exploding in various countries.
