Røyk i cockpit - Curt Lewis

Incident: Fedex MD11 near Tokyo on Dec 9th 2017, smoke in cockpit A Fedex Federal Express McDonnell Douglas MD-11 freighter, registration N618FE performing freight flight FX-49 (dep Dec 8th) from Anchorage,AK (USA) to Taipei (Taiwan) with 3 crew, was enroute at FL320 about 100nm west of Tokyo's Narita Airport when the crew reported smoke in the cockpit and diverted the aircraft to Tokyo Narita for a safe landing on runway 34L about 30 minutes later. Japan's Ministry of Transport reported the runway was closed for about 4 minutes while emergency services checked the aircraft. The occurrence aircraft remained on the ground for about 2:40 hours, then continued to Taipei and reached the destination with a total delay of 4:15 hours.

Incident: United B739 near Newark on Dec 8th 2017, smoke in cockpit A United Boeing 737-900, registration N62889 performing flight UA-1048 from Newark,NJ (USA) to Cancun (Mexico) with 185 people on board, was climbing through about FL180 out of Newark when the crew donned their oxygen masks reporting smoke in the cockpit and returned the aircraft to Newark. The aircraft landed safely back on Newark's runway 22L about 30 minutes after departure. A replacement Boeing 737-900 registration N67845 reached Cancun with a delay of 2.5 hours.