Cathay Pacific airliner carrying 208 passengers and crew members has made an emergency landing at Nagoya airport in central Japan, after a pilot reported smoke in the cockpit.
Staff noticed the stench aboard Flight 501 bound for Hong Kong about 30 minutes after it took off from Tokyo's international airport at around 11 a.m. (0200 GMT), said Cathay Pacific Airways spokeswoman Maria Yu.
An official at Japan's Transportation Ministry said the Airbus 330-300 was about 4,900 meters (16,000 feet) above ground when the pilot asked for permission to make the urgent landing at Nagoya Airport, about 270 kilometers (170 miles) west of Tokyo.
There were no injuries among the 194 passengers and 13 crew members on board, Yu said.
The airline is investigating the cause of the smell.
An airport official says the plane, an Airbus A330, was flying from Japan's Narita to Hong Kong, when Nagoya airport received a request for an emergency landing.
It landed 10 minutes later.
No one has been injured.
Cathay Pacific A330 makes emergency landing in Japan
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There was a time where they didn't react that fast!
I remember seeing a movie of a crash in Saudi Arabia that the flight-engineer discovered a 'fire in cargo'-light, that the copilot needed to check it out, that the light went out and they continued the flight for another 15 minutes before the captain realised that it could be serious, the flight attendants where totally ignored, etc.... Anyway they landed the plane after over half-an-houre but the rear filled with smoke, they used the entire runway so the fire-trucks had to drive another 2 miles, finally they arrived but the flight-engineer forgot to unpressurize so nobody could get out! They opened the aircraft and found piles of bodies at the emergency exits! Quite shocking...
I remember seeing a movie of a crash in Saudi Arabia that the flight-engineer discovered a 'fire in cargo'-light, that the copilot needed to check it out, that the light went out and they continued the flight for another 15 minutes before the captain realised that it could be serious, the flight attendants where totally ignored, etc.... Anyway they landed the plane after over half-an-houre but the rear filled with smoke, they used the entire runway so the fire-trucks had to drive another 2 miles, finally they arrived but the flight-engineer forgot to unpressurize so nobody could get out! They opened the aircraft and found piles of bodies at the emergency exits! Quite shocking...
Hi Luchtzak,Luchtzak wrote:There was a time where they didn't react that fast!
I remember seeing a movie of a crash in Saudi Arabia that the flight-engineer discovered a 'fire in cargo'-light, that the copilot needed to check it out, that the light went out and they continued the flight for another 15 minutes before the captain realised that it could be serious, the flight attendants where totally ignored, etc.... Anyway they landed the plane after over half-an-houre but the rear filled with smoke, they used the entire runway so the fire-trucks had to drive another 2 miles, finally they arrived but the flight-engineer forgot to unpressurize so nobody could get out! They opened the aircraft and found piles of bodies at the emergency exits! Quite shocking...
It was a Saudian L1011 HZ-AHK , fired probably caused by crypton wiring.
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I don't recall such problem with an A 330 but on september the 2nd 1998 a Swissair MD-11 ( 
) crashed in the North Atlantic when it tried to land at Halifax-Nova Scotia with smoke in the cockpit.
Reg.: HB-IWF, flight was from New york to Geneva, none survived.
) crashed in the North Atlantic when it tried to land at Halifax-Nova Scotia with smoke in the cockpit.Reg.: HB-IWF, flight was from New york to Geneva, none survived.
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The SV163 case?
Is that the case you're talking about SV163?Lien wrote:It was a Saudian L1011 HZ-AHK , fired probably caused by crypton wiring. See you
For these reasons 301people died.
1) the failure of the captain to prepare the cabin crew for immediate evacuation upon landing and his failure in not making a maximum stop landing on the runway, with immediate evacuation,
2) the failure of the captain to properly utilize his flight crew throughout the emergency
3) the failure of C/F/R headquarters management personnel to ensure that its personnel had adequate equipment and training to function as required during an emergency.