http://avherald.com/h?article=44fafe93&opt=0Incident: OLT Express A320 near Sofia on May 17th 2012, loss of cabin pressure, fire in cabin
By Simon Hradecky, created Thursday, May 17th 2012 13:00Z, last updated Thursday, May 17th 2012 15:23Z
An OLT Express Airbus A320-200, registration SP-IAE performing flight YAP-7107 from Warsaw (Poland) to Hurghada (Egypt) with 147 passengers and 8 crew, was enroute at FL370 about 60nm northnortheast of Sofia (Bulgaria) when the crew reported the loss of cabin pressure, initiated an emergency descent and decided to divert to Sofia. During the descent the crew reported a fire in the cabin, cabin crew attempted to extinguish the fire with fire extinguishers, after checking in with Sofia Tower the crew repeated they had a fire in the cabin. The aircraft landed safely on runway 27 about 13 minutes after leaving FL370 and stopped on the runway. The aircraft was evacuated via slides. No injuries occurred.
The airport was closed for about one hour.
Emergency services found soot on one of the passenger oxygen masks, which had deployed during the descent towards Sofia.
The airline reported the aircraft diverted to Sofia due to the loss of cabin pressure, one of the (chemical) oxygen generators feeding the passenger oxygen masks produced sparks and visible flames causing the carpet to catch fire, the fire was quickly extinguished by cabin crew. After evacuation the passengers were taken to the terminal and provided with assistance, a replacement Air Via aircraft is going to continue the flight at 19:30L (16:30Z).
Che un dispositivo di sicurezza, come quello dell'ossigeno, abbia problemi di scintille mi prplime un po': a sensazione (mia) non dovrebbe essere tra quelli soggetti a manutenzione/ispezione piu' frequente?