Samsung Could Face Second Note 7 Recall After “Safe” Model Exploded on Plane

The Federal Aviation Administration and the US Consumer Product Safety Commission are investigating Wednesday’s incident. At that time, in a forthcoming from Louisville, Kentucky took off the Southwest Airlines plane, a passenger’s phone suddenly smoke. Flight attendants with a fire extinguisher to extinguish the passengers on the plane successfully evacuated, causing no casualties.

“If it’s a repaired cell phone and I smoke in the passenger’s pocket, I think there’s a second recall,” said Pamela Gilbert, former executive director of the Consumer Safety Council. ” Before a second recall, how can you protect your data on Galaxy Note? Follow the text and find out the answer: How to Backup & Reset Samsung Galaxy Note 7 before Recall.

If this is confirmed that the fire on the phone is the replacement of the new Galaxy Note 7, Samsung’s phone may be facing a second recall in the United States.

Galaxy Note 7 appeared a number of battery fires, shortly after listing in August, making Samsung Electronics in crisis. Samsung Electronics announced that it will recall 2.5 million battery-defective Galaxy Note 7s worldwide in the past month. Later, Samsung Electronics said it had found the reason for cell phone fire, and to ensure that the new phone will not have such a problem. See more at: Galaxy Note7 Recall-How to Prevent Battery from Exploding.

Nancy Nord, the former acting chairman of the US Consumer Safety Commission, said the second recall was not very common.

“Of course, they’re probably going to have a recall if Wednesday is not an accident,” Nord said. “They need to determine if this is a fixed phone, and if it’s a good phone, why is this happening?”

The phone’s owner, Brian Green, told local media that he had gone to a retail store to replace the new Galaxy Note 7 after receiving the recall.

Green turned off the phone, put it into his pocket, and then made a crackling sound and began to smoke on the plane. Green threw the phone to the ground, in order to avoid their own injuries. It is reported that mobile phones and aircraft on the carpet were burned seriously. Unfortunately, if your Galaxy Note 7 explodes or is broken, everything stored on your device are gone, including contacts, text messages, call logs, photos, videos, etc. The good news is that you can still recover lost files from Samsung Galaxy Note 7.

Samsung Electronics said in a statement that only after checking the equipment to announce more information on Wednesday. At present, Samsung Electronics has not yet provided any new information, the spokesman did not respond to questions on whether to recall.

The US Consumer Product Safety Commission and Samsung Electronics have multiple options, and if a new device is found to contain systemic vulnerabilities, it may have a wider recall. But if they do not find a greater security risk, they can not take any action.

Of course, the US Consumer Product Safety Commission, although legally entitled to a recall order, but the need for court proceedings, which may take several months. In general, the agency will work with enterprises to carry out the recall work, and Samsung Electronics had such cooperation before.

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