Yesterday-night an Iberia Airbus A340 flying from Madrid to Mexico City had to make an emergency landing in Portugal after the pilots detected smoke in one of the holds.
Saw this on the VRT 13.00 news. Anyone got some more information?
Iberia Airbus A340 emergency landing in Portugal
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A Spanish airliner made an emergency landing at Lisbon international airport in the early hours of Friday after the cabin filled with smoke, forcing the airport to close for four hours, an airport official said.
The Iberia aircraft, an Airbus A340, was flying from Madrid to Mexico, and nine people were injured, one of them seriously, while going down an evacuation slide, a spokesman for airport management company ANA told Lusa news agency.
In Madrid, a spokeswoman for the airline told AFP that five of the more than 300 people on board were slightly injured on leaving the aircraft, with one woman breaking her ankle.
According to investigators no fire could possibly have broken out in the hold but a probe was launched to determine what caused the alert, she added.
The plane carried 288 passengers and 14 crew. Passengers were to leave for Mexico on another Iberia plane in the afternoon.
The emergency landing occurred at around 3:15 am (0315 GMT). The airport, Portugal's busiest, opens for regular air traffic at 6:00 am (0600 GMT).
The airport closure delayed the take-off of a flight by Russian President Vladimir Putin, whose plane was on a stopover in Lisbon on the way to the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum in Chile, by more than half an hour.
Putin is scheduled to make a short official visit to Portugal Tuesday while on his return to Russia from a two-day meeting in the Chilean capital Santiago.
"No other plane suffered a delay," ANA spokesman Rui Oliveira told private radio TSF
The Iberia aircraft, an Airbus A340, was flying from Madrid to Mexico, and nine people were injured, one of them seriously, while going down an evacuation slide, a spokesman for airport management company ANA told Lusa news agency.
In Madrid, a spokeswoman for the airline told AFP that five of the more than 300 people on board were slightly injured on leaving the aircraft, with one woman breaking her ankle.
According to investigators no fire could possibly have broken out in the hold but a probe was launched to determine what caused the alert, she added.
The plane carried 288 passengers and 14 crew. Passengers were to leave for Mexico on another Iberia plane in the afternoon.
The emergency landing occurred at around 3:15 am (0315 GMT). The airport, Portugal's busiest, opens for regular air traffic at 6:00 am (0600 GMT).
The airport closure delayed the take-off of a flight by Russian President Vladimir Putin, whose plane was on a stopover in Lisbon on the way to the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum in Chile, by more than half an hour.
Putin is scheduled to make a short official visit to Portugal Tuesday while on his return to Russia from a two-day meeting in the Chilean capital Santiago.
"No other plane suffered a delay," ANA spokesman Rui Oliveira told private radio TSF