A Connecticut author who burned his hands on an overheated e-cigarette during a flight is now blaming the airline for allowing him to charge it on board.

Eric T. Wiberg, a sailor who has written maritime books, was traveling in June from London to New York on Norwegian Air Shuttle when his electronic smoking device began to smolder, he claims in a lawsuit.

The writer had plugged his e-cig into an outlet, put it in the seat-back pocket in front of him and had fallen asleep — and awoke to smoke pouring from the unit, according to court papers.

Wiberg grabbed the overheated e-cig and “plunged it into a bucket of water” held by the panicked crew, he claimed, sustaining third-degree burns on his right hand, and first- and second degree burns on his left hand, he says in a Brooklyn federal court lawsuit against the airline.

The airline should never have let him bring the e-cig on the flight or let him charge it, he fumes in court papers seeking unspecified damages.

Norwegian declined to comment on the claim but noted the US Transportation Department banned e-cigs from flights in March.