Niki A320 near Saragossa on Dec 14th 2015, odour in cabin

Last Update: December 16, 2015 / 21:17:18 GMT/Zulu time

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Incident Facts

Date of incident
Dec 14, 2015

Classification
Incident

Airline
Niki

Flight number
HG-8980

Destination
Madrid, Spain

Aircraft Registration
OE-LEE

Aircraft Type
Airbus A320

ICAO Type Designator
A320

A Niki Airbus A320-200, registration OE-LEE performing flight HG-8980 from Vienna (Austria) to Madrid,SP (Spain) with 58 passengers and 6 crew, was enroute at FL390 about 45nm north of Saragossa,SP (Spain) when the crew reported an unidentified odour in the cabin and decided to divert to Saragossa for a safe landing on runway 30R about 20 minutes after leaving FL390.

The airline told Austrianwings that an odour in the forward cabin, that could not be clearly identified, prompted the crew to divert to Saragossa for a precautionary landing. Although there was no fire and no smoke the captain opted to declared PAN. Following safe landing the passengers were bussed to Madrid.
Incident Facts

Date of incident
Dec 14, 2015

Classification
Incident

Airline
Niki

Flight number
HG-8980

Destination
Madrid, Spain

Aircraft Registration
OE-LEE

Aircraft Type
Airbus A320

ICAO Type Designator
A320

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