Berlin A332 at Dusseldorf on May 10th 2017, odour on board
Last Update: May 15, 2017 / 14:44:58 GMT/Zulu time
Incident Facts
Date of incident
May 10, 2017
Classification
Incident
Airline
Air Berlin
Flight number
AB-7392
Departure
Dusseldorf, Germany
Destination
San Francisco, United States
Aircraft Registration
D-ABXD
Aircraft Type
Airbus A330-200
ICAO Type Designator
A332
The airline reported the passengers were taken to hotels and are expected to depart the following day. The cause of the odour is under investigation.
The occurrence aircraft remained on the ground for about 17 hours, then performed a test flight of about 20 minutes duration, then remained on the ground for another about 26 hours before resuming service.
In the aftermath of the occurrence a source contacted The Aviation Herald on May 11th 2017 stating, that this occurrence had been the last of a series of fume events that stated on Aug 9th 2015, see Accident: Berlin A332 at Palma Mallorca on Aug 9th 2015, fumes injure at least one flight attendant.
On May 15th 2017 Germany's BFU confirmed that the BFU received four occurrence reports involving D-ABXD since 2015 including the occurrences of Aug 9th 2015 and May 10th 2017. All but the last had not been rated a serious incident and accident, therefore no investigation into these occurrence had been opened. Information is still being collected for the last occurrence of May 10th 2017, the occurrence will be rated subsequently. While the BFU answered the question, how many occurrences involving D-ABXD since August 2015 had been reported to the BFU, additional questions like ground times following such occurrences or whether the occurrences were checked for possible common factors, that could be identified as causes of the occurrences or could be ruled out as causes, remained unanswered.
Incident Facts
Date of incident
May 10, 2017
Classification
Incident
Airline
Air Berlin
Flight number
AB-7392
Departure
Dusseldorf, Germany
Destination
San Francisco, United States
Aircraft Registration
D-ABXD
Aircraft Type
Airbus A330-200
ICAO Type Designator
A332
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