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Smoke Smell Causes AA Emergency, Disrupts A380 Visit to LAX

August 5, 2008 at 4:00 PM | by | Comments (2)

The last thing you want on a flight is a suspicious smell. But after a passenger caught a whiff of smoke, American Airlines Flight 31 to Honolulu turned around and made an emergency landing back at LAX this morning.

Even though emergency slides were involved, investigators never found the source of the odor. Ironically, firefighters were already at the airport to welcome an incoming Airbus A380 from Emirates Airlines. After the jump, break out the water cannons!


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[Photo of an earlier A380 visit to LAX: casualclicks]

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Playing it safe

It is good that AA turned back right away.  You would not want to be 2 1/2 hours out over the Pacific and have a fire.  

Aloha, http://beatofhawaii.com

beatofhawaii com on August 5, 2008 at 4:11 PM #Permalink

Not Qantas!

After Qantas had made the headlines down here in Oz with a million "incidents" in two weeks, bet they are so pleased to see this AA footage on the news now instead! Always looks great to have people sliding down those slides ...
amandak on August 6, 2008 at 5:30 AM #Permalink

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