11-10-2016 15:08 via theverge.com

Burned Galaxy Note 7 from Southwest flight seized by federal regulators for testing

Investigators with the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) used a subpoena to seize the charred remains of Brian Green’s Samsung Galaxy Note 7, the phone that caught fire on a Southwest Airlines flight on October 5th. The investigatory team then drove the device to Bethesda, Maryland and hand-delivered it to the CPSC lab there for extensive testing.
Green told The Verge that the CPSC confiscated his device with a subpoena on October 6th, the day after the fire, while it was in the ha
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