A pilot was forced to make an emergency landing after the cockpit of his plane started to fill with smoke.
The pilot contacted air traffic control at Newcastle Airport on Thursday morning and reported smoke in the cockpit and a possible fire.
The Scandinavian Air Services flight was travelling to Manchester from Copenhagen when it made the emergency landing at Newcastle at 0950 GMT.
The MacDonnell Douglas 80 plane, which was carrying 51 passengers and six crew, was given immediate clearance to land.
The passengers were taken off the plane and the airport’s customer services team organised coaches for them to travel to Manchester Airport.
The cause of the smoke has not yet been established. Engineers are at the airport carrying out investigations.
By: Britannia - 23rd January 2004 at 17:02
The a/c involved in the NCL incident was SE-DIS
By: A330Crazy - 22nd January 2004 at 23:52
FAO Mark: The Air France 340 at LHR yesterday Was F-GLZU, Flight AF050.
By: steve rowell - 22nd January 2004 at 23:33
Originally posted by Mark L
Its been a bad couple of days for emergencies, yesterday an Air France A340 had to divert to LHR routing CDG-ORD, and a Finnair A321 had to divert back to LHR yesterday evening too.
And a brand new Qantas A330-300 had to divert to Adelaide because of fumes in the cockpit
By: Kenneth - 22nd January 2004 at 19:48
The Scandinavian Air Services flight
Scandinavian Airlines System (a.k.a. SAS), perhaps… 😉
By: Britannia - 22nd January 2004 at 19:44
It hanged around because it was flying towards the sea. It could not land because it still had too much fuel on board, which had to be dropped over the sea.
Sorry. I forgot about that:rolleyes:
By: Jeanske_SN - 22nd January 2004 at 19:39
It hanged around because it was flying towards the sea. It could not land because it still had too much fuel on board, which had to be dropped over the sea.
By: Britannia - 22nd January 2004 at 18:27
Good thing this wasn’t handled in the same manner as SwissAir 111
Definitely a good thing, it was at 30,000 feet when it did an emergency decent, it did’nt hang around like the Swissair flight
By: greekdude1 - 22nd January 2004 at 18:24
Good thing this wasn’t handled in the same manner as SwissAir 111.
By: Mark L - 22nd January 2004 at 17:41
Its been a bad couple of days for emergencies, yesterday an Air France A340 had to divert to LHR routing CDG-ORD, and a Finnair A321 had to divert back to LHR yesterday evening too.
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