Condor diversion to SNN in February 2019
Happened to an Air NZ 737 enroute WLG - AKL back in the day.
FO trips coming back into the cockpit with two takeaway coffees - splashed all over the centre console.
They thought they'd wiped it all up.
But the jet had to divert to Palmy North that evening when the centre console started smoking.
When they took the centre panel apart it was full of congealed coffee and stains from many spills.
I loved the headline the next day.
Coffee Grounds.
FO trips coming back into the cockpit with two takeaway coffees - splashed all over the centre console.
They thought they'd wiped it all up.
But the jet had to divert to Palmy North that evening when the centre console started smoking.
When they took the centre panel apart it was full of congealed coffee and stains from many spills.
I loved the headline the next day.
Coffee Grounds.
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Reminds me of the movie plot for "Fate is the hunter". I thought they would make panels splash-proof after that movie came out.They had fifty years to figure out how to do it after all.
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Dan spill.
Similar incident in Danair many moons ago. Ex-military F/O trainee on the B737 spilt his coffee on the radio selector box, and diverted into Brussels. When the highly embarrassed copilot returned to LGW OPS he found that all the naughty ops guys had filled dozens of plastic coffee cups and spread them all over the room. As he entered , they all shouted "watch out" in unison. Within a couple of days there was a Tommee Tippee cup in ops with "737 crews for the use of" inscribed. Those were the days.
Seeing the youth of some of our new FOs, that is highly appropriate!
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Similar incident in Danair many moons ago. Ex-military F/O trainee on the B737 spilt his coffee on the radio selector box, and diverted into Brussels. When the highly embarrassed copilot returned to LGW OPS he found that all the naughty ops guys had filled dozens of plastic coffee cups and spread them all over the room. As he entered , they all shouted "watch out" in unison. Within a couple of days there was a Tommee Tippee cup in ops with "737 crews for the use of" inscribed. Those were the days.
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I will always remember a coffee spill into the "well" at the back of the 737-200 centre pedestal. It was a VHHH to ZGGG sector on only my second trip after getting my command. On descent I had blindly reached for the PA handset just as the FA was unknowingly passing me a coffee which was not ordered or expected on a 20 minute flight. Anyway the cup's contents went down between the 3 fire handles and disappeared followed by the APU fire warning almost immediately and then ENG 1 and eventually ENG 2 were on all at once. Strangely the QRH didn't cover this event. Fortunately we landed a few minutes later with the warnings now cycling on and off every 30 seconds or so.
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