Lufthansa flight diverts to US airport after laptop fire

None of the passengers were injured, but two flight attendants were treated for smoke inhalation following the “unscheduled landing," Lufthansa said in a statement (file photo). A Lufthansa flight from Los Angeles to Frankfurt, Germany, has made an unscheduled landing at Chicago's O’Hare International Airport after a passenger's laptop caught fire. None of the passengers were injured, but two flight attendants were treated for smoke inhalation following the “unscheduled landing," Lufthansa said in a statement. A similar incident occurred last weekend in the USEmergency responders evacuated a JetBlue flight at JFK International Airport in New York City as a result of a small fire in a passenger’s laptop. Seven passengers suffered minor injuries, including smoke inhalation and bruised elbows.