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    21 June 2012| last updated at 12:55PM

    Smoke forces plane from NY to Denmark down



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    COPENHAGEN: Smoke inside a plane carrying 272 passengers and crew from New York to Copenhagen forced the aircraft to make an emergency landing in Maine, Scandinavian airline SAS said early Thursday.

    “There was smoke in part of the cabin ... and the plane made an undramatic  emergency landing at Bangor airport in Maine,” SAS spokesman Anders Lindstroem  told AFP, stressing that there had not been an emergency evacuation of the  plane and no one had been hurt.

    The fully-booked Airbus A330 had taken off at around 5:00 pm local time  (2100 GMT Wednesday) from Newark Airport and had been in the air for about an  hour when it was forced to make the emergency landing, he said.

    “Technicians are onboard now investigating, and hotels have been arranged  for all the passengers,” Lindstroem said.

    He said the airline was working hard to find alternative ways for the  passengers to get to Copenhagen, where they had been supposed to land at around  7:30 am (0530 GMT).- AFP

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