From the Moncton Times and Transcript:
"HALIFAX, N.S. - An American Airlines Boeing 767-300 with 206 people on board made an emergency landing in Halifax late Tuesday after an apparent electrical fire in a cabin washroom.
Peter Spurway, a spokesman for the Halifax International Airport Authority, said one passenger was checked at the scene by paramedics but was not taken to hospital as reported earlier. The other passengers disembarked safely.
Flight 64 was en route to Zurich from New York City when the crew declared an emergency due to smoke in the mid-cabin and diverted to Halifax.
Spurway said the airport received an unconfirmed report of a fire that may have started in a ceiling fan motor in a washroom.
"It would be an electrical fire caused by an overheated fan motor in the washroom, by the sound of things," he said. "It wasn't like somebody in there was smoking or something in there caught fire."
"That's what our guys were told."
The plane's crew advised the tower in Halifax of a problem on board at 7:48 p.m. AT.
The plane landed at 8:20 p.m. and everyone left the plane within minutes by rollup stairs, not emergency slides.
The jetliner sat on the tarmac surrounded by several fire trucks and other emergency vehicles as the passengers were being processed inside the terminal.
There was no sign of smoke or activity onboard.
American Airlines spokeswoman Mary Frances Fagan said there were 194 passengers and 12 crew members on the transatlantic flight"
I read the article while flying from Halifax to Chicago, after seeing the plane there and wondering why. Here's my pic.
Halifax is where the doomed Swissair MD-11 tried to divert to when it had a cockpit fire. All died when it crashed into the sea.
"HALIFAX, N.S. - An American Airlines Boeing 767-300 with 206 people on board made an emergency landing in Halifax late Tuesday after an apparent electrical fire in a cabin washroom.
Peter Spurway, a spokesman for the Halifax International Airport Authority, said one passenger was checked at the scene by paramedics but was not taken to hospital as reported earlier. The other passengers disembarked safely.
Flight 64 was en route to Zurich from New York City when the crew declared an emergency due to smoke in the mid-cabin and diverted to Halifax.
Spurway said the airport received an unconfirmed report of a fire that may have started in a ceiling fan motor in a washroom.
"It would be an electrical fire caused by an overheated fan motor in the washroom, by the sound of things," he said. "It wasn't like somebody in there was smoking or something in there caught fire."
"That's what our guys were told."
The plane's crew advised the tower in Halifax of a problem on board at 7:48 p.m. AT.
The plane landed at 8:20 p.m. and everyone left the plane within minutes by rollup stairs, not emergency slides.
The jetliner sat on the tarmac surrounded by several fire trucks and other emergency vehicles as the passengers were being processed inside the terminal.
There was no sign of smoke or activity onboard.
American Airlines spokeswoman Mary Frances Fagan said there were 194 passengers and 12 crew members on the transatlantic flight"
I read the article while flying from Halifax to Chicago, after seeing the plane there and wondering why. Here's my pic.
Halifax is where the doomed Swissair MD-11 tried to divert to when it had a cockpit fire. All died when it crashed into the sea.
