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Greenland Flight Cancels Due to Smoke, Chemical Fumes


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Contact photographer Robbie Shaw

What: Air Greenland de Havilland Dash 7-100 en route from Ilulissat to Upernavik
Where: Ilulissat
When: Jan 11th 2012
Who: 27 passengers and 3 crew
Why: After takeoff from Ilulissat, smoke developed in the lavatory, cabin and cockpit and the fire detector went off The flight returned to Ilulissat where they made a safe landing.

No smoke or fire was detected in the cabin, but on inspection, the high pressure bleed air on both left engines did not work.

Additionally, unidentified chemical fumes evaporated in to the air conditioning system.

Maintenance believes the problem has been corrected.

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