Smoking plane makes emergency landing at Gatwick Airport

A plane on its way to Cardiff Airport was forced to make an emergency landing at London’s Gatwick Airport after the passenger cabin started to fill with smoke. The flight which was carrying 46 passengers who were travelling from Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris started to fill up with smoke around 20 minutes before they were able to make an emergency stop.

“I could see there was smoke in the cabin. It started collecting along the roof and seemed to be getting thicker,” said Shayne Krige a passenger on the plane. Krige added that passengers aboard the plane were not ordered into the brace position for landing but he said felt the was feeling of relief when the plane finally touched down.

The Flybe plane landed safely at Gatwick and all passengers exited the plane in an orderly manner. Rescue and emergency vehicles were immediately dispatched to the aircraft but none were needed.

“The priority landing, at which emergency vehicles were deployed by the airport as a precautionary measure, followed a suspected technical fault. All 46 passengers disembarked safely and without incident and will be re-accommodated at the earliest possible opportunity,” said a spokesperson on behalf of Flybe.

Engineers are looking into what caused the cabin to fill with smoke.

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