Petition updateStop contaminated cabin air in aircraft!EASYJET DECLARES AN EMERGENCY AND CLOSES MILAN MALPENSA AIRPORT DUE TO FUME EVENT.
Trudie DaddCrewkerne, ENG, United Kingdom
Jul 12, 2018 — Photograph: AeroInside. An EasyJet Airbus A320 Registration G-EZOM scheduled to fly from Milan Malpensa to Heraklion on 5th July as Flight Number U2 2963 departed from Milan at 20.07. It returned to Milan 43 minutes later after declaring an emergency. The emergency was SMOKE IN THE CABIN.‘The airport kept both runways sterile, all arrivals were sent into holds while the A320 returned to Malpensa.’ ‘A ground observer reported the airport basically closed. An aircraft on short final was instructed to go around and join a hold immediately after G-EZOM declared emergency, all other arrivals were sent into holds, departures were halted.G-EZOM stopped on the runway (after landing) for just less than 10 minutes before taxiing to the apron with emergency services including fire engines and ambulances in trail. The airport re opened about 15 minutes after the landing of the aircraft’. (Quoted from Aviation Herald). It’s incredible that this aircraft caused so much disruption and inconvenience to other aircraft, the airport and emergency services yet continued with it’s flight schedule the following day as planned - From Milan Malpensa to Gatwick as flight U2 8190. It completed a total of 5 flights that day rather than be subject to a full engineering investigation into what actually caused the smoke in the cabin. This is just one of many fume events that happen each month where aircraft return to the departure airport or divert to another airport en route because of smoke and/or fumes in the cockpit or cabin.
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