Condor B763 over Atlantic on Mar 19th 2015, lavatory fire indication

Last Update: March 19, 2015 / 18:24:29 GMT/Zulu time

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Incident Facts

Date of incident
Mar 19, 2015

Classification
Incident

Airline
Condor

Flight number
DE-4156

Destination
Cancun, Mexico

Aircraft Registration
D-ABUC

Aircraft Type
Boeing 767-300

ICAO Type Designator
B763

A Condor Boeing 767-300, registration D-ABUC performing flight DE-4156 from Frankfurt/Main (Germany) to Cancun (Mexico) with 230 passengers and 10 crew, was enroute at FL320 about one hour into the Atlantic crossing, when the crew decided to turn around and divert to Shannon (Ireland) reporting smoke in the cockpit following a rear lavatory fire indication. The crew requested emergency services to check the tyres due to the pending overweight landing. The aircraft landed safely on Shannon's runway 06 (active runway 24) about 80 minutes later, vacated the runway and stopped on the adjacent taxiway for inspection by emergency services. Emergency services entered the cabin to examine the lavatory and also checked the undercarriage, subsequently reporting the undercarriage okay.

The airline reported: "The aircraft started at 1:36pm CET in Frankfurt and returned to Shannon precautionarily after about 3,5 hours of flight time due to a light smoke development in a lavatory in the back of the aircraft. There was no smoke in the cockpit." The passengers are being taken care of at the airport until a replacement aircraft dispatched from Frankfurt to Shannon arrives delivering maintenance personnel to check the occurrence aircraft and takes the passengers to Cancun.
Incident Facts

Date of incident
Mar 19, 2015

Classification
Incident

Airline
Condor

Flight number
DE-4156

Destination
Cancun, Mexico

Aircraft Registration
D-ABUC

Aircraft Type
Boeing 767-300

ICAO Type Designator
B763

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