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Woman's Headphones Caught Fire Midflight, Australian Authorities Say

On a flight from Beijing to Melbourne, a passenger's personal headphones caught fire while she was sleeping, the Australian Transport Safety Bureau says.
A photo provided by the Australian Safety Transport Bureau shows an airplane passenger whose headphones caught on fire midflight.

A passenger on a flight from Beijing to Melbourne, Australia, was listening to music on her own personal headphones when the headphones suddenly caught fire, the Australian Transport Safety Bureau says.

The ATSB assessed that the

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