Alaska Air flight grounded after e-cig batteries ignite

An Alaska Airlines plane at Juneau International Airport. (Photo by Heather Bryant/KTOO)
Passengers on an Alaska Airlines flight from Seattle to Anchorage on Sunday were delayed over five hours after a passenger’s backpack started burning. Batteries for an e-cigarette are the likely culprit.
Flight 67 had just made a scheduled stop in Ketchikan at 3:30 Sunday afternoon, and about half the passengers had deplaned when the incident occurred.
Andrew Hames was seated just a few rows behind the