Earlier this year the US Department of Transportation banned passengers from carrying Samsung’s Galaxy Note 7 smartphones on flight after the devices reportedly started catching fire. It appears like airlines certainly aren’t taking the ban lightly.
A passenger traveling by the Virgin America flight switched the name of their portable Wi-Fi hotspot to ‘Galaxy Note 7_1097,’ which gave other passengers and the flight’s crew the impression that the Samsung’s device was on-board and was actively being used. “Lucas Wojciechowski was on Virgin America flight 358 from
“I don’t know if you’ve ever been diverted at 3am..Let me tell you, it is terrible. There is nothing open in the terminal. Nothing,” Wojciechowski (@lucaswoj) tweeted.
This resulted in a call out for the passenger with the Note 7 to press their call button.
“Mr. Wojciechowski subsequently tweeted the crew's announcements from the late night flight after the pilot warned passengers they would have to make an emergency landing,” the report added.
As a result, the owner came forward and confessed that there was no Samsung Galaxy Note 7 onboard and that they had changed the name of their Wi-Fi to ‘Samsung Galaxy Note 7_1097.’ Following which, the flight crew made an announcement saying, “Ladies and gentlemen, we found the device. Luckily only the name of the device was changed to 'Galaxy Note 7'. It was not a GN7."
