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TACA Airbus Cockpit Smoking

What: TACA Peru Airbus A320-200 en route from Lima to Cuzco
Where: Cuzco
When: Sep 18th 2011
Who: 90 passengers
Why: While en route, the windshield heating system began smoking.

Pilots continued to Cuzco, stepping up the pace, and made a safe landing, with no injuries. Some passengers erroneously believed the turbine in the right wing was on fire.

“sobrecalentamiento en el sistema eléctrico de los parabrisas en la cabina de los pilotos originó humo y activó el proceso de emergencia preventiva“, the problem was due to overheating of the windshield heating system, according to TACA, a problem that was essentially a short circuit.

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