Smokin’ plane brings Gatwick to standstill
Gatwick Airport was forced to close, on Friday 24th July, after a plane made an emergency landing.
The Flybe Dash 8 aircraft, with 46 passengers on board, was en route to Cardiff from Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris.
It is believed that it put down at the West Sussex airport because of a smoke problem.
“I could see there was smoke in the cabin. It started collecting along the roof and seemed to be getting thicker,” said Shayne Krige a passenger on the plane. Krige added that passengers aboard the plane were not ordered into the brace position for landing but he said there was a huge feeling of relief when the plane finally touched down.
All the passengers and crew were safely evacuated.
A Flybe spokesperson said. “The priority landing, at which emergency vehicles were deployed by the airport as a precautionary measure, followed a suspected technical fault. All 46 passengers disembarked safely and without incident and will be re-accommodated at the earliest possible opportunity.”
Engineers are looking into what caused the cabin to fill with smoke.
The team at Aerotoxic.org will be stayin’ on the case to see what caused this.
Main thing is everyone got out ok…
Tags: Flybe Dash 8, Gatwick Airport, smoke filled cabin
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October 22, 2009 at 11:33 pm
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