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03/22/13 - CBC.ca - Plane makes emergency landing at Ottawa airport 

About 170 passengers heading to Cuba were scheduled to board a second
flight early Friday afternoon, just hours after the first flight ended with
an emergency landing when white, odourless smoke filled the cabin.

Sunwing flight No. 326 was en route to Varadero, Cuba. The Boeing 737-800
left the Ottawa airport at 6:32 a.m., according to the flight tracking
website FlightAware.

Paramedics got the initial call at about 6:40 a.m. ET, and the plane landed
at the airport at about 6:53 a.m.

Two minutes later, firefighters said, the smoke had dissipated. Crews on
the scene were checking the brakes on the plane, according to a media
release.

An Ottawa Macdonald-Cartier International Airport Authority spokeswoman
said all passengers were able to get safely off the plane.

There was no fire in the cockpit, the spokeswoman said, and no one was
injured.

Odourless smoke filled cabin

The flight's passengers waited at the airport for several hours while
Sunwing arranged a second flight to Cuba.

The passengers told the CBC's Stu Mills that thick, white, odourless smoke
filled the cabin of the plane.

People started yelling "Fire!" and a flight attendant announced over the PA
system that the aircraft would be making an emergency landing.

About 10 minutes after takeoff, the passengers said, the plane was
returning to the airport.

One passenger, Jamie Page, said he'd never felt an aircraft brake so
forcefully before, and that it seemed as though the pilot wanted to get the
plane back to the ground quickly.

Sunwing arranged for a second flight to Cuba, scheduled to take off at
12:30 p.m.


Original Source / Fuente Original:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/story/2013/03/22/ottawa-plane-emergency-landing-airport-fire-cockpit-smoke.html