It took off around noon this Thursday from Orly airport, towards Pointe-à-Pitre in Guadeloupe. But after an hour and a half of flight, a Corsair Airbus A330 was forced to turn around and was diverted to Brest-Guipavas airport where it landed urgently at around 2.15 p.m.
Uh …
Mayday mayday .. pic.twitter.com/DLUoFEUZyx– Maxime Huguet (@stormaxou) November 25, 2021
According to The Telegram, the passengers would have smelled a burning odor and smoke would have spread inside the aircraft, forcing the crew to turn around. The Airbus carried 148 passengers,
precise West France.
Passengers leave the plane, forced to land urgently at #Brest https://t.co/pn7do1s6pq pic.twitter.com/fNq4tiF0Kn
– Rémy Quéméner (@remyquemener) November 25, 2021
About forty firefighters were dispatched to the site as well as staff to welcome the passengers who left the aircraft unharmed a little before 3 p.m.