Boeing faces review call over Glasgow air scare

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PASSENGERS evacuated from planeas it filled with smoke have called for a review of the aircraft's systems.

A total of 231 passengers and eight crew escaped from a Boeing 757 on the runway at Glasgow Airport after arriving from Turkey, on ­11 October.


An Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) report identified a faulty auxiliary power unit (APU) which is a power system used as large planes are taxied and passengers disembarked.

The APU on the Boeing 757 was returned to the manufacturer for examination. It has emerged the same Thomas Cook-operated aircraft was used the next day, without the APU being operated, to take travellers to Tenerife. But it was diverted to Manchester when the pilots detected a smell of fuel and began to feel light-headed, forcing them to use oxygen masks.

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