Burning bread crumbs send plane back to Boston

[LazyLion]

The smell of burning bread crumbs has forced a Miami-bound American Airlines flight to return to Boston.

An airlines spokeswoman says Flight 1532 took off from Boston's Logan International Airport at 6:36 a.m. Sunday, but passengers soon began smelling smoke.

The plane returned to Boston at 7:10 a.m., and the smell was found to be from bread crumbs burning in an oven. The oven was cleaned, and the flight took off again at 8:20 a.m.

The plane was carrying 150 passengers and five crew members.


Source : Sapa-AP /aw
Date : 19 May 2014 00:29

 

[garyc]

Below is a breakdown of the causes of smoke in an aircraft. Smoke from the galley is usually electrical, which probably got them worried.

 

[Grant]

and in other news:

an airbus plummeted out of the sky in a ball of flames when the cabin crew ignored the burning smell coming from the galley - assuming it to be the smell of a burnt muffin in the oven.