The FAA singled out Samsung Electronics’s Galaxy Note 7 smartphone as a potential fire hazard in mid-flight, practically killing the company’s device’s recovery efforts. The agency’s statement released late Thursday said that “in light of recent incidents and concerns” involving the smartphones, the FAA “strongly advises passengers not to turn on or charge these devices” on planes and “not to stow them in any checked baggage.”

The Wall Street Journal noted that the FAA statement comes less than a week after the world’s largest smartphone maker had announced a global recall and replacement program for millions of Galaxy Note 7 devices because the batteries exploded or caught fire during recharging.

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