A fire in a mini-oven of an Airbus A330 linking Paris to Montreal forced Thursday a return to Roissy-Charles-de-Gaulle airport, just eight minutes after takeoff, AFP told police Borders (PAF). The incident took place shortly before 4 pm on a Canadian Air Transat flight with 385 passengers and 8 crew members aboard.
Thirty people "inconvenienced"
"The fire was extinguished before help arrived," PAF said and 29 people were "inconvenienced", but none were hospitalized. "The toxicological surveys carried out on the spot proved to be zero", according to this same source. The built-in oven was removed but, according to the pilot's decision, the plane did not leave, according to an airport source, who added that the passengers of the flight would spend the night from Thursday to Friday at the hotel near the airport. 'airport.