Aircraft in flight. Photo credit: Mike Campbell / Nurphoto / Shutterstock Editorial / Profimedia
The smoke in the cab forced a plane to land in Graz, the second largest city in Austria, Austrian police announced Monday, according to Reuters.
The aircraft had taken off from Budapest, the capital of Hungary, and headed for Lyon, a city in east of France, with 143 passengers and a crew made up of six members.
“No person was injured in the incident. The cause of smoke is currently unclear,” said the police in the Austrian Land Stiria, whose regional capital is Graz, in a statement.
The name of the Airline Company is not mentioned in the police statement, but a single flight from Budapest, Al Easyjet, appears on the website of Lyon-Saint Exuppy.
On the Easyjet website writes that the flight was diverted to Graz and a “later flight” was announced from the Austrian city to Lyon.
According to Flightradar24, flight tracking site, the plane that landed in Graz is an Airbus 319.
