One passenger’s mindless gadget blunder nearly dooms Swiss flight to New York: Smoke forces emergency landing

Flight LX16, bound from Zurich to New York with 208 souls on board, had to divert in a hurry to Bangor in Maine. Charging case turns deadly mid-flightTechnical teams later traced the smoke to a commercially available headphone charging case fitted with a power bank. Swiss has already banned the use of power banks on every flight since the start of 2026. One passenger posted on X, “On flight LX16 from Zurich to NYC and just had to make an emergency landing in Bangor! One passenger’s casual handling of a charging case forced an unscheduled landing and put hundreds of people through a proper scare that could so easily have ended far worse.