Boeing 767 forced to land as cockpit fills with smoke
Looking through Google today I noticed there have been more and more smoke related incidents on aircraft. Frankly, at the moment, I can’t keep up!
Here’s one from 1 April 09 – and it certainly wouldn’t have been an April fool for those on board.
An airliner that reportedly had smoke in its cockpit and engine trouble while enroute from England to the Washington, D.C area landed without incident at Bangor International Airport (Maine, U.S).
United Airlines Flight 923 was traveling from Heathrow Airport to Dulles International Airport in northern Virginia, but was rerouted to BIA where the Boeing 767 landed safely, said BIA director Rebecca Hupp.
Hupp said one of the plane’s two jet engines was not functioning. “Airplanes are designed to be able to operate with one engine out,” Hupp said. “It’s not that dire.”
Well maybe not ‘dire’ – if you mean the plane didn’t crash. That’s the good news. But what about the smoke filled cockpit? Here’s hoping the pilots were unaffected by the cocktail of chemicals they had the pleasure of breathing in.
There were 178 passengers and 11 crew members on board. Emergency crews were standing by but were not needed.
The plane was manufactured in 1992, according to Federal Aviation Administration records.
Tags: Boeing 767, fume event, smoke in cockpit, united airlines flight 923
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September 26, 2009 at 5:01 pm
I was one of the April fools on this flight, there may well have been smoke in the cockpit, but there was smoke in the cabin as well, it set all the toilet fire alarms off, $100 they gave us for the delays and scareing the hell out of us, very genorous i thought, off to the states again in a few days NOT by United Airlines i might add