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Old 29th June 2017, 11:10 AM
MarkR MarkR is offline
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Default Dash 8 Smoke in cockpit - Adelaide

http://avherald.com/h?article=4aad5ac1&opt=0

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An Eastern Australia de Havilland Dash 8-300 on behalf of Qantas, registration VH-TQH performing flight QF-2272 from Port Lincoln,SA to Adelaide,SA (Australia), was on final approach to Adelaide's runway 23 when the crew detected smoke in the cockpit, declared emergency, continued for a safe landing on runway 23, vacated the runway and performed a rapid disembarkation on the adjacent taxiway.

The ATSB rated the occurrence an incident and opened an investigation estimated to conclude by Nov 2017.

The occurrence aircraft remained on the ground for 17 hours, then resumed service.
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