The plane’s staff had smelled the smell of an electrical fire in the plane.
Aircraft was evacuated at Helsinki-Vantaa airport at half past five on Wednesday, said the director general of the Eastern Uusimaa Police Department Jere Pääkkönen.
According to Pääkkönen, the staff of the departing plane smelled the smell of an electrical fire in the plane.
“The crew evacuated the passengers and called for help,” Pääkkönen said.
Central Uusimaa the rescue service announced less than an hour after receiving the notification that “slight visible smoke” was detected in the cockpit of the aircraft.
The rescue service checked the plane and made sure that there was no fire in the plane.
Paramedics checked the pilots. The passengers were not exposed to smoke. According to Pääkkönen, no one was injured in the situation.
Several units of the police and emergency services went to the scene.
The police are investigating the cause of the smell. According to the rescue service, the situation at the airport has ended.
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