Delta Air Lines flight DL224, originally bound for Paris on August 7, had to make a u-turn back to it’s departure airport of Boston due to fumes in the cabin.
Information has been released pertinent to the incident at hand, which we will get into in this article.
Below is what we know on this so far…
Delta Air Lines DL224 Boston to Paris…
Delta Air Lines flight DL224, which suffered fumes in the cabin, is a routine scheduled flight between Boston and Paris CDG.
Also, it is understood the aircraft involved in the incident was N401DZ.
As per data from Planespotters.net, N401DZ is a 5.3 year old Airbus A330-900neo that was delivered to the airline in May 2019.
Furthermore, of the Airbus A330-900neo, Delta Air Lines has 29 of them in their fleet.
All of them are in active service, with an average fleet age of 2.9 years.
Moreover, as well as the A330-900neo, the carrier has the other following aircraft in their mainline fleet, amassing 990 aircraft:
- 71 Airbus A220s.
- 57 Airbus A319s.
- 58 Airbus A320s.
- 188 Airbus A321s.
- 11 Airbus A330-200s.
- 31 Airbus A330-300s.
- 32 Airbus A350s.
- 88 Boeing 717s.
- 240 Boeing 737s.
- 121 Boeing 757s.
- 64 Boeing 767s.
Delta Air Lines flight DL224, which suffered fumes in the cabin, departed Boston at 1941 local time on August 7 and initially climbed out towards Paris.
To the south of Clark’s Harbour, Nova Scotia, the aircraft made a u-turn back to base with an issue onboard.
Furthermore, reporting from The Aviation Herald mentions this was due to fumes in the cabin being observed at 29,000 feet.
From there, the aircraft continued it’s choice to divert back to Boston and landed there without further incident after an hour and 42 minutes in the air.
Aircraft Grounded Following Fumes in the Cabin…
Data from RadarBox.com highlights that N401DZ, the Delta Air Lines Airbus A330-900neo involved in the incident surrounding fumes in the cabin on DL224 between Boston and Paris was grounded as a result.
Data from RadarBox.com indicates that the aircraft is still grounded currently at the time of writing (1250 UK time 09/08/2024.)
However, there is a flight logged for August 10, being the DL49 rotation between Amsterdam and New York.
Therefore, the expectation is that the aircraft could very well depart Boston tonight and head to Amsterdam overnight on a passenger service.
As soon as we have more information pertinent to the incident at hand, then we will update you accordingly.
Such updates will be seen at the bottom of this article as and when more information comes to light.
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