Smoke escapes from the cockpit during a flight between London and Verona.
The pilots therefore ask for preferential treatment at the destination airport.
Munich – Caution is always a good guide.
Especially at dizzy heights.
The pilots of a British Airways plane also did not want to take any risks on their flight from London to Verona – the route is normally covered in two hours.
When smoke emanated from the cockpit and the alarm went off, they responded quickly and asked to be given a priority landing in the northern Italian city "as a precaution".
The pilots gave a "minor technical problem" as the reason, as the British airline announced.
The Italian news agencies
Ansa
and
Adnkronos
reported on the incident and wrote of an "emergency landing".
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Smoke in the cockpit: British Airways machine has to make an emergency landing in Verona
The plane eventually landed at Catullo Airport in south-west Verona, according to British Airways.
The passengers disembarked as usual.
The statement does not state to what extent they were informed of the incident during the flight.
The fire brigade was on site.
But the most important thing: There were no injuries to complain about.
It was not initially known what caused the smoke in the cockpit.
It also remained unclear in which phase of the flight the incident occurred.
The machine obviously reached its destination airport.
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