The incident at about 6.45pm yesterday came after the Boeing 737-800 took off from Kota Kinabalu were to klia2.
Sepang district police chief ACP Abdul Aziz Ali, said the fire occurred while the passenger is watching a video on the display screen in his seat.
"In the midst of watching a sudden vape battery in a bag that is on the man's thighs burned.
"A fire that caused him minor injuries in the thigh and left arm, but was treated immediately by another passenger who happened to be a doctor," he said.
Abdul Aziz said the crew managed to quickly control the fire and the plane safely landed at KLIA 2 at 8:44 pm.
He said the man then made a police report immediately on landing.
However no complaints were received from the Air so far over the incident.
