Condor B763 near Minneapolis on May 29th 2018, smoke in cockpit

Last Update: May 31, 2018 / 09:32:08 GMT/Zulu time

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Incident Facts

Date of incident
May 29, 2018

Classification
Incident

Cause
Smoke in cockpit

Airline
Condor

Flight number
DE-2010

Departure
Frankfurt/Main, Germany

Destination
Minneapolis, United States

Aircraft Registration
D-ABUP

Aircraft Type
Boeing 767-300

ICAO Type Designator
B763

A Condor Boeing 767-300, registration D-ABUP performing flight DE-2010 from Frankfurt/Main (Germany) to Minneapolis,MN (USA), was descending towards Minneapolis when the crew donned their oxygen masks and declared emergency reporting smoke in the cockpit from their radio stack. At times hard to understand and being cut off in their transmissions, possibly both due to the oxygen masks and the damage to the radio stack, the crew continued the descent while ATC did everything in their powers to understand what the crew requested and trying to ask questions (in preparation for such understanding) that could be answered with a short and distinct word. The aircraft performed a safe landing on Minneapolis' runway 12R. Tower asked whether wanted to stop on the runway, vacate and stop, or taxi to the ramp, crew answered ramp still wearing their oxygen masks after landing. The aircraft taxied to the apron with emergency services in trail. Emergency services boarded the aircraft for an inspection, the passengers disembarked normally.

A passenger reported the crew told them there had been smoke in the cockpit emitting from one of the radios. The aircraft landed and taxied to the gate, firemen came on board with thermal equipment and inspected the aircraft.

The occurrence aircraft remained on the ground in Minneapolis for 17 hours, then departed for the return flight DE-2011 with a delay of 16:20 hours but needed to return to Minneapolis again, this time without emergency services on stand by.

Following the return the aircraft remained on the ground for another 12 hours, then departed again and is currently enroute over the Labrador Sea estimated to reach Frankfurt with a delay of 29 hours.
Incident Facts

Date of incident
May 29, 2018

Classification
Incident

Cause
Smoke in cockpit

Airline
Condor

Flight number
DE-2010

Departure
Frankfurt/Main, Germany

Destination
Minneapolis, United States

Aircraft Registration
D-ABUP

Aircraft Type
Boeing 767-300

ICAO Type Designator
B763

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