Apple iPhone 4 scared the crew. He began to smolder and glow strangely - iDNES.cz

        
        Smoldering iPhone 4, which also published a red light, frightened passengers and staff regional flight ZL319 from Lismore to Sydney.
    

        

            

device, however, “calm down” before anyone could take anything. Airlines issued a press release to the case where stressed that nothing had happened, and none of the passengers was injured during the incident.

Source: www.knowyourmobile.com

The case was then reported to the Australian Transport Safety Bureau and the Office for the safety of civil aviation. Damaged phone was then passed to the analysis, which should help reveal the reasons for the strange behavior of the device on board the aircraft.

In the U.S. a few days after this event happened to a similar incident also in the Samsung Galaxy S II. The user felt unnatural heat and burning in your pocket. When the phone is removed, it no longer smoking. The case of user posted XDA Developers forum.

Source: forum.xda-developers.com