smoking credit card reader forces plane's emergency landing - small lithium ion battery

An Alaska Airlines flight was forced to make an emergency landing in Buffalo, New York. Y.
A flight attendant's credit card started smoking today.
The device is "not on fire", according to Alaska Airlines representative Nancy trout, but flight attendants do use fire extinguishers to clear the smoke.
Trott told ABC News that the crew said "it looks like the battery is melting ".
Douglas Hartmeyer, a Buffalo Airport News official, said the "small fire" had been put out when the plane landed.
The crew told the firefighters that the equipment was sitting at the counter when they realized it was on fire.
Then they threw it into the trash and doused it with a fire extinguisher.
According to the airline, the credit card reader is equipped with a small lithium-ion battery, similar to the type of battery that powers a watch or mobile phone.
As lithium-ion batteries are known to cause fires, the FAA wants to limit the heavy use of these batteries on aircraft.
Alaska Airlines is dismantling the equipment for inspection and restoring it to the airline's old card reader.
"We think this is a very isolated event," said GuestLogix Inc, a card reader maker.
Tell ABC today.
"However, we were very careful to recall all the equipment of the same model as Alaska Airlines.
"No one was injured and the Boeing B737 was on its way from Newark, New York. J.
Nearly 200 passengers arrived in Seattle and landed safely at Buffalo Niagara International Airport around 8: 40 a. m. m. ET.
The FAA is investigating the matter.