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Air Traffic Monitoring => Aviation Audio Clips => Topic started by: tooom91 on May 17, 2012, 10:03:02 AM

Title: OLT Express A320 near Sofia on May 17th 2012, fire in cabin
Post by: tooom91 on May 17, 2012, 10:03:02 AM

"An OLT Express Airbus A320-200, registration SP-IAE performing flight YAP-7107 from Warsaw (Poland) to Hurghada (Egypt) with 142 people on board, was enroute at FL370 about 60nm northnortheast of Sofia (Bulgaria) when the crew reported a fire in the cabin, cabin crew attempted to extinguish the fire with fire extinguishers, and decided to divert to Sofia, where the aircraft landed safely on runway 27 about 13 minutes later and stopped on the runway. The aircraft was evacuated via slides. No injuries occurred.

The airport was closed for about one hour.

Emergency services found soot on one of the passenger oxygen masks, which had deployed during the descent towards Sofia."

Title: Re: OLT Express A320 near Sofia on May 17th 2012, fire in cabin
Post by: loplo on May 18, 2012, 08:20:07 AM

Thanks for sharing.

Title: Re: OLT Express A320 near Sofia on May 17th 2012, fire in cabin
Post by: Whuts_goingon on May 18, 2012, 02:55:34 PM

Of course AvHerald has the story too...

http://www.avherald.com/h?article=44fafe93&opt=0