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XL Airways Boeing Smoked out at Cologne-Bonn airport


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Contact photographer Markus Adank

What: XL Airways en route through Boeing 737-800 from Hanover to Bonn
Where: Cologne-Bonn airport
When: Sept 3 2012
Who: 186 passengers, 6 crew
Why: An XL Airways plane at Bonn was evacuated when smoke filled the cabin. Seven passengers were treated on the scene and eleven in all were injured. Some passengers described an odor like kerosene.

Passengers disembarked via the stairway on to the tarmac with emergency services on standby.

In 2008, the same plane had an engine problem forcing an emergency landing.

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