Baltic B733 near Riga on May 29th 2019, smell of ammonia on board
Last Update: June 3, 2019 / 21:46:29 GMT/Zulu time
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
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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