Egypt A332 at Madinah on Aug 4th 2017, smoke in cockpit

Last Update: August 4, 2017 / 22:53:19 GMT/Zulu time

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Incident Facts

Date of incident
Aug 4, 2017

Classification
Incident

Airline
Egypt Air

Flight number
MS-640

Destination
Cairo, Egypt

Aircraft Registration
SU-GCG

Aircraft Type
Airbus A330-200

ICAO Type Designator
A332

An Egypt Air Airbus A330-200, registration SU-GCG performing flight MS-640 from Madinah (Saudi Arabia) to Cairo (Egypt) with 50 passengers and 10 crew, was climbing out of Madinah when the crew stopped the climb at about FL110 reporting smoke in the cockpit and returned to Madinah for a safe landing on runway 35 about 15 minutes later.

The occurrence aircraft was able to depart after about 4 hours on the ground and reached Cairo with a delay of 4:10 hours.
Incident Facts

Date of incident
Aug 4, 2017

Classification
Incident

Airline
Egypt Air

Flight number
MS-640

Destination
Cairo, Egypt

Aircraft Registration
SU-GCG

Aircraft Type
Airbus A330-200

ICAO Type Designator
A332

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