Vegetables on board a flight forced the plane to divert after they triggered a cargo smoke warning.
Crew received a forward cargo smoke indication while Air France plane was over the Atlantic yesterday.
The flight, en route to Paris from the Dominican Republic with 142 passengers on board and 14 crew, made an emergency landing in Shannon, Ireland.
Emergency services were told not to open the forward cargo door before all passengers had left the aircraft but no traces of fire, smoke or heat were found.
‘A load of vegetables in the cargo compartment is believed to have triggered the smoke indication’, reports the Aviation Herald.
A post on the aviation news website suggested that vegetables and other plant materials cause false alarms due to the ‘gasses and odours created as the bio-materials break down’.
