{"id":401212,"date":"2026-04-08T00:38:40","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T14:38:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tap-air-portugal-overhead-locker-fire-diversion-report\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T00:38:40","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T14:38:40","slug":"13-minutes-of-terror-the-real-reason-this-tap-flight-turned-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=401212","title":{"rendered":"13 Minutes Of Terror: The Real Reason This TAP Flight Turned Back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this year, a<span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"255379\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/tap-air-portugal\/\"  >TAP Air Portugal<\/a><\/span> Airbus A320-200 flying from London Gatwick Airport (LGW) to Porto (OPO) was forced to return to its point of departure shortly after takeoff due to a burning smell in the cabin. Now, two months later, Portugal&#8217;s Office for the Prevention and Investigation of Accidents in Civil Aviation and Rail (GPIAAF) has published a report into the matter, shedding further light on the precise details of this occurrence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Portugal&#8217;s aviation authorities have shared further details on the incident that occurred two months ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[426,429,396,476,120,1265,688],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-401212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-airbus","category-airbus-a320","category-aircraft","category-airlines","category-europe","category-london-gatwick-airport","category-tap-air-portugal"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=401212"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":401213,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401212\/revisions\/401213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=401212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=401212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=401212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}