Condor B763 at Recife on Mar 20th 2018, fumes in cabin
Last Update: April 10, 2018 / 13:31:12 GMT/Zulu time
Incident Facts
Date of incident
Mar 20, 2018
Classification
Accident
Airline
Condor
Flight number
DE-2409
Departure
Recife, Brazil
Destination
Munich, Germany
Aircraft Registration
D-ABUB
Aircraft Type
Boeing 767-300
ICAO Type Designator
B763
The aircraft was removed from service, positioned to Frankfurt/Main (Germany) about 3.5 hours after landing, remained on the ground in Frankfurt for about 17 hours, then returned to service.
Germany's BFU reported on Mar 26th 2018, that the occurrence had been reported to them, they are currently collecting further information to rate the occurrence.
On Mar 27th 2018 The Aviation Herald received information that there had been a pungent sweet smokey odour of overheated sweaty feet in the forward to mid cabin, the odour became extremely strong near the forward lavatories.
On Apr 10th 2018 the BFU reported that the BFU did not rate the occurrence an accident or serious incident, hence no investigation has been opened.
Incident Facts
Date of incident
Mar 20, 2018
Classification
Accident
Airline
Condor
Flight number
DE-2409
Departure
Recife, Brazil
Destination
Munich, Germany
Aircraft Registration
D-ABUB
Aircraft Type
Boeing 767-300
ICAO Type Designator
B763
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