Transavia Boeing 737 Diverts to Zagreb, Burning Plastic Smell
Transavia Boeing 737-800 (photo: Wikipedia)
A Transavia jet flying from Sharm el-Sheikh (Egypt) to Amsterdam diverted to Zagreb Friday night due to a burning plastic smell.
Transavia Flight 578, a Boeing 737-800 with 192 passengers aboard, made a safe landing at 1:30 AM.
Two passengers were treated for breathing problem but are expected to be fine.
Category: Airnation
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maybe the smoking ban on aircraft should be extended to the planes themselves!! just a bit of levity for monday morning!
I am getting a tad worried about the number of ‘incidents’ of ‘smells & cabin mist/smoke etc.’ that forces the flight crew to divert to the nearest available airfield.
Many times I read months later thatt an incident was the result of burning toast in the galleys or even that smoke came from a new oven had set of alarms and/or detectors in the galley. Cannot the flight crew know the difference between cabin fumes & odours and the cabin crew communicate that the toast was burning etc? I understand also that sometimes some spilt lubricating oil from within the engine cowling has in contact with hot parts and vapourised into the air ducts and entered the cabin and again I ask why instrumentation in the 21st century cannot distinguish real from perceived danger to the flight itself!!
We have an aircraft on the surface of MARS that can do much of what I am talking of and this stuff has been decades in development and has been available ( I am assuming here ) to aerospace generally so why has it not been deployed if one spends billions of $ developing a new airplane?
I thank Mr. Riley for is levity for sparking me enough to have to write this posting……..far too many flights are disrupted due to non lethal reasons and perhaps better management of the flight and indeed the ground turnaround activity should be an area of concern.