United B772 over Atlantic on Feb 8th 2013, smoke in cockpit

Last Update: February 11, 2013 / 14:45:53 GMT/Zulu time

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Incident Facts

Date of incident
Feb 8, 2013

Classification
Incident

Cause
Smoke in cockpit

Airline
United

Flight number
UA-935

Departure
London Heathrow, United Kingdom

Destination
Los Angeles, United States

Aircraft Registration
N206UA

Aircraft Type
Boeing 777-200

ICAO Type Designator
B772

A United Boeing 777-200, registration N206UA performing flight UA-935 from London Heathrow,EN (UK) to Los Angeles,CA (USA) with 182 passengers and 10 crew, was enroute at FL330 about 15 minutes into the Atlantic crossing off the Irish Coast and about 300nm northwest of Shannon (Ireland) when the crew turned around reporting smoke in the cockpit, dumped fuel and diverted to Shannon (Ireland) for a safe landing on runway 24 about 45 minutes later. After landing the crew requested emergency services to especially look at the nose wheels reporting the smoke was coming into the cockpit. Emergency services advised nothing abnormal was seen, the aircraft subsequently taxied to the apron.

The aircraft is still on the ground 7 hours after landing.

Passengers reported the crew announced there was smoke coming from a panel in the cockpit. The aircraft dumped fuel and diverted to Shannon. About 4 hours after landing the flight was cancelled, the passengers were taken to hotels. Passengers were advised the flight will depart Shannon on Feb 9th 11:00L and reach Los Angeles with a delay of about 24 hours.

The incident aircraft attempted to resume the flight on Feb 9th and was cleared for takeoff from runway 24 at 15:00L (15:00Z) when the crew rejected takeoff at low speed reporting they had received some message. The aircraft returned to the gate, the flight was cancelled a second time.

A replacement Boeing 777-200 registration N222UA was dispatched to Shannon on Feb 10th and reached Los Angeles with a delay of 48.5 hours.

The incident aircraft positioned to Washington Dulles,DC (USA) as flight UA-6872 on Feb 10th.
Incident Facts

Date of incident
Feb 8, 2013

Classification
Incident

Cause
Smoke in cockpit

Airline
United

Flight number
UA-935

Departure
London Heathrow, United Kingdom

Destination
Los Angeles, United States

Aircraft Registration
N206UA

Aircraft Type
Boeing 777-200

ICAO Type Designator
B772

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