Air France flight made emergency landing in Budapest
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An Air France flight was forced to make an emergency landing at Budapest’s Liszt Ferenc International Airport on Tuesday morning due to an engine malfunction. The return flight had to be cancelled.
According to AIRportal.hu, the crew of Air France flight AF 1394, which departed from Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport, detected the problem and immediately notified air traffic control in Budapest. While the issue was being assessed, the aircraft circled in the vicinity of Zsámbék before the pilots requested priority landing.
The Airbus A321 successfully touched down at Liszt Ferenc International Airport shortly after 11 AM local time. Upon landing, units from the Airport Facility Fire Department (Repülőtéri Létesítményi Tűzoltóság) promptly arrived to inspect the aircraft and escort it to its designated parking spot.
Such events are so hard on everyone….like a large stone thrown into a calm pond, the rippel effect just keeps going further out from the central impacted area. The more we fly, the more it seems to be less joyful. That upside down landing in Toronto at Pearson, where I arrived in Canada in ’61 from Besenyo” designated as ‘a possesion of the pilot’ to be returned if no one claimed me, that was something to see. Always wear absorbant layered clothing cus there are many incidents that make you loose more than your lunch.