 The owner told a local television station that he had received a text message not meant for him from a Samsung customer service representative, which read "Just now got this.I can try and slow him down if we think it will matter, or we just let him do what he keeps threatening to do and see if he does it".On 5 October 2016, a flight preparing to depart from Louisville was evacuated prior to takeoff when a passenger's replacement Galaxy Note 7, obtained from an AT&T retail outlet, began smoking and popping as they were turning it off.