A Boeing 787-900 to the U.S. airline United Airlines, with 256 passengers on Board made an emergency landing on Monday in new Caledonia. The machine has been on a long flight from Australia to the USA route diverted in the French overseas territory in the Pacific ocean, because, apparently, smoke from the Cockpit came, as an employee of the operator company of the airport of Noumea, the AFP news Agency said. The passengers had left the aircraft after landing “at rest”.
The machine was launched in Melbourne, Australia and was supposed to fly on schedule to Los Angeles. Because of the Emergency, the plane was diverted to new Caledonia, approximately 2700 kilometres North East of Melbourne in the South Pacific.
According to the website of the newspaper “Les Nouvelles Calédoniennes” were in the aircraft, the oxygen masks dropped. The radio station RRB reported that all the passengers are doing well. You would have to spend the night in Noumea because the aircraft will be technically examined.
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