Passenger Treated For Burns After Aircraft Returned To Gate Alaska Airlines Flight 2117, operated by Horizon Air, an Embraer 175, was en route to Seattle Sunday, when a passenger experienced an overheating issue involving her cell phone and its power bank about a half hour into the flight. Alaska Airlines said that while preparing for landing, flight attendants placed the phone and power bank into a containment bag and the plane returned to Wichita’s Dwight D. Eisenhower National Airport. One passenger said she was sitting nearby when a woman was using a lithium-ion battery-powered charger pack to charge her phone when it caught fire.
