UPS Flight 206 smoke diversion

[RotorAndWing]

Interesting article. Good job by the crew getting on the ground ASAP.


By Simon Hradecky, created Sunday, Apr 22nd 2012 15:12Z, last updated Sunday, Apr 22nd 2012 15:14Z

A UPS Boeing 767-300, registration N332UP performing flight 5X-209 from Philadelphia,PA (USA) to Cologne (Germany), was enroute at FL330 about 40nm north northeast of Boston,MA (USA) when the crew reported an odor in the cockpit, followed by smoke in the cockpit from the center pedestal possibly right radio. The crew decided to divert to Boston where the aircraft landed overweight and safely on runway 33L about 13 (!) minutes later and stopped on the runway reporting they had hot brakes and now also had a fire indication at the upper cargo deck containing hazmat, they believed however the fire indication was false. The crew shut the aircraft down and requested emergency services to use thermal imaging, a quick check of the cargo bay by them had not shown any trace of fire. Emergency services found no trace of fire.

details: http://flightaware.com/live/flight/U...345Z/KPHL/EDDK

 

[flyingron]

None of the passengers were injured.

 

[Ted]

Sounds like the crew handled it very well. They were also lucky that this happened where it did - halfway to Europe would not have been a good place for smoke in the cockpit.

The important thing: plane and pilots were ultimately reusable.

 

[TMetzinger]

Nice call on the thermal imaging too.

 

[Threefingeredjack]

I can't think of anything better to get your pulse rate up than an inflight fire. Only had one, and it was one too many. Sounds like the crew did a textbook job getting an overweight plane on the ground. Not surprised they heated up the brakes, would be interesting to know how heavy they were.

 

[Inverted]

Carrying cargo can be scary at times. We have had some really weird items loaded, especially weird hazmat, it will get the blood flowing.

 

[Threefingeredjack]

Carrying cargo can be scary at times. We have had some really weird items loaded, especially weird hazmat, it will get the blood flowing.

Weirdest thing I ever hauled was on a mission to re-introduce some Monk seals to Kure Island. Not that the seals were weird, but the World Wildlife Fund "dignitaries" were.....ummmm.....different.