'Someone yelled 'fire' and I look up to see the cabin filling with smoke very fast,' a passenger said.
The cabin on a Spirit Airlines flight from Dallas-Fort Worth to Orlando filled with smoke when a battery caught fire in an overhead bin.
"Spirit Airlines Flight 259 landed safely at Jacksonville International Airport around 2 p.m. on Wednesday, March 1 after the crew reported a battery on fire in an overhead bin," an FAA spokesperson told CNN. Ten people were removed from the flight by emergency services after landing, according to Jacksonville Fire Rescue Department Captain Eric Prosswimmer.
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