Lotus Air APU fire in CDG
A French sensationalist Newspaper ( Le parisien ) tells in its Saturday edition this morning a story which is in meantime repeated in many media.( sensitive after the crash of Flash airlines of course )
From the usual journalistic exaggeration, one can draw the following elements:
An A320 from Egyptian charter Lotus Air arrived in CDG on 22.01 at 0100Z on gate with a smoking APU. The ground crew warned crew who discharged the bottle. Upon inspection the APU seems to have had an explosion as a hole of 40cm was visible below the fin. Also parts of the APU were found later on the runway.
The sensationalist part now come in : the crew apparently insisted on taking off back to Cairo with pax, and police have had to intefere and block the a/c from departing. FDR was taken out and sent to BEA in le Bourget.
Crew is now in Hotel in CDG awaiting debriefing by BEA.
Registration of a/c is given as SU-LBE .
Anyone has more news ?