UPS flight makes emergency landing due to loss of FMC and smoke in the cockpit – VisionSafe

UPS flight makes emergency landing due to loss of FMC and smoke in the cockpit

Source: Simon Hradecky | www.avherald.com

A UPS United Parcel Service Boeing 767-300 freighter, registration N329UP performing freight flight 5X-205 from Philadelphia,PA (USA) to London Stansted,EN (UK), was enroute at FL350 about 150nm west of Cardiff,WL (UK) when the crew diverted the aircraft to Cardiff reporting they had lost their flight management and guidance computers (FMC) and there was a burning smell and smoke in the cockpit. The aircraft landed safely on Cardiff’s runway 12 about 25 minutes later, vacated the runway and stopped on the parallel taxiway.

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