Smoke in the cockpit forces emergency landing – VisionSafe

Smoke in the cockpit forces emergency landing

Source: Simon Hradecky | www.avherald.com

A Jetblue Airbus A321-200, registration N958JB performing flight B6-1818 from Port of Spain (Trinidad and Tobago) to New York JFK,NY (USA), was enroute at FL340 about 260nm east of Norfolk,VA (USA) when the crew reported smoke in the cockpit, turned west and diverted to Norfolk for a safe landing about 45 minutes later.

The airline reported the aircraft diverted to Norfolk due to possible smoke in the cockpit. A replacement crew is about to take the passengers to New York.

The occurrence aircraft remained on the ground in Norfolk for about 17 hours, then continued the flight to New York and arrived with a delay of 17:20 hours.

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