Pilot’s coffee spill forced trans-Atlantic flight to turn around, an inquiry shows
When the pilot of Feb 6 international flight spilled a cup of coffee on the cockpit controls midway over the Atlantic Ocean, it melted one of the buttons and the plane was diverted to Ireland, an investigation concluded Thursday. The Condor airlines flight had been carrying 337 people, including 11 crew members, from Frankfurt to Cancún, Mexico, when the episode occurred aboard the Airbus A330, according to the UK aviation authority. The coffee was on a tray table in the cockpit when the pilot accidentally knocked it over, spilling most of it onto his lap and some of it onto the communications equipment, investigators said. The pilot’s and co-pilot’s audio control panels were both disabled by the spill and there was a small amount of smoke in the cockpit, the Air Accidents Investigation Branch said. <br/>
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Pilot’s coffee spill forced trans-Atlantic flight to turn around, an inquiry shows
When the pilot of Feb 6 international flight spilled a cup of coffee on the cockpit controls midway over the Atlantic Ocean, it melted one of the buttons and the plane was diverted to Ireland, an investigation concluded Thursday. The Condor airlines flight had been carrying 337 people, including 11 crew members, from Frankfurt to Cancún, Mexico, when the episode occurred aboard the Airbus A330, according to the UK aviation authority. The coffee was on a tray table in the cockpit when the pilot accidentally knocked it over, spilling most of it onto his lap and some of it onto the communications equipment, investigators said. The pilot’s and co-pilot’s audio control panels were both disabled by the spill and there was a small amount of smoke in the cockpit, the Air Accidents Investigation Branch said. <br/>
