Baltic B733 near Riga on May 29th 2019, smell of ammonia on board

Last Update: June 3, 2019 / 21:46:29 GMT/Zulu time

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Incident Facts

Date of incident
May 29, 2019

Classification
Accident

Airline
Air Baltic

Flight number
BT-495

Departure
Riga, Latvia

Destination
Rijeka, Croatia

Aircraft Registration
YL-BBJ

Aircraft Type
Boeing 737-300

ICAO Type Designator
B733

An Air Baltic Boeing 737-300, registration YL-BBJ performing flight BT-495 from Riga (Latvia) to Rijeka (Croatia), was enroute at FL360 about 150nm southwest of Riga when the crew decided to return to Riga due to a smell of ammonia on board. The aircraft landed safely back in Riga about 50 minutes after departure. A number of crew reported ill, a number of passengers vomitted and showed eye irritations, the injured were treated by paramedics.

A replacement Bombardier CS-300 registration YL-AAP reached Rijeka with a delay of 3 hours.

The occurrence aircraft remained on the ground in Riga for about 21 hours after landing back, then performed a test flight without any findings and performed the rotation BT-627/BT-628 of May 30th 2019 to Venice (Italy), however, suffered another smell event and was grounded in Riga. No source of the odour was identified, on Jun 2nd 2019 the aircraft performed three test flights without any findings and returned to service with no further occurrence so far. Crews were told to be careful when departing with the winds coming from certain directions.
Incident Facts

Date of incident
May 29, 2019

Classification
Accident

Airline
Air Baltic

Flight number
BT-495

Departure
Riga, Latvia

Destination
Rijeka, Croatia

Aircraft Registration
YL-BBJ

Aircraft Type
Boeing 737-300

ICAO Type Designator
B733

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