A woman has been taken to hospital to be treated for burns and other injuries after the LG smartphone she was using suddenly caught fire on a plane waiting to leave Pearson International Airport.

Peel police responded to the incident at the airport on the Air Canada flight around 7 a.m.

Peel Const. Bancroft Wright said the woman suffered burns to her body and clothes and she was taken to hospital. But the injuries aren’t serious.

“It sparked up,” he said of the phone, adding that it caused “a small fire.”