Airbus Beluga declared an emergency after smoke reported in cockpit

An Airbus Beluga transport plane performed an emergency landing yesterday after the crew reported smoke in the cockpit.

The aircraft with three crew onboard took off from Hawarden Airport at 10.10am on Monday was en route to Hamburg-Finkenwerder, Germany.

The seventeen year old transporter was descending north of Bremen, when the flight crew declared an emergency due to smoke in the cockpit.

Emergency services were put on standby at Hamburg-Finkenwerder Airport as the Beluga came into land around 15 minutes after the emergency was declared.

Flighpath: flightradar24.com/data/aircraft/f-gstf

The airport Fire Service escorted the Beluga off the runway to the airport apron and on inspection it was found that there had been a ‘cable fire’ on the flight deck, which had already extinguished.

#Airbus #Beluga #emergency #landing it was reported smoke
after landing the fire department was outside but did nothing
and the Beluga was unloaded pic.twitter.com/J4OeWu4gHY

— Tobi (@Tobias_Gudat) February 26, 2018

In an update this morning spokesperson from Airbus told Deeside.com;

“We confirm a “safety landing” of the Beluga (registration F-GSTF) at our Airbus airport Finkenwerder due to apparent smoke in the cockpit. The plane was on a flight from Chester (UK) to Hamburg-Finkenwerder. The plane landed safely and the crew are fine.”

Image: Beluga 5 landing at Hawarden in 2015 – Rob Davies YouTube