A flight made an emergency landing at Dublin Airport this morning after smoke was detected in the cockpit soon after departure.
Iberia Express flight IB-3793 departed Dublin at around 11.30am destined for Madrid in Spain.
Just minutes after taking off, the crew advised air traffic controllers that they had an issue which they wished to investigate.
A short time later, the pilot confirmed they had smoke in the cockpit and that they had to don their emergency oxygen masks.
The pilot told controllers they wanted to make an ‘immediate return’ to Dublin.
A number of other inbound flights were told to break off their approaches and were placed in holding patterns until the incident aircraft had landed safely.
ALERT Iberia #IB3793 to Madrid returned to Dublin due to smoke in cockpit. Landed safely @planefinder pic.twitter.com/pYQdfo4lNB
— AIRLIVE (@airlivenet) August 12, 2016
The flight landed safely shortly before midday and was met by airport emergency services.
Fire crews carried out a visual inspection of the plane’s exterior before the aircraft taxied to the terminal.
Fire personnel carried out a further inspection of the aircraft in an effort to determine the source of the smoke while engineers were also standing by to investigate the issue.
