Air Canada’s liner makes forced landing on Kamchatka

Air Canada’s Boeing-767 with 162 people on board has made a forced landing at the Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky airport in the Russian Far East.

The airliner was en route from Vancouver to Shanghai when the crew smelled smoke and took the decision to urgently land at a nearby airport.

Russian engineers and technicians carefully checked out the Boeing, only to decide that there had been no fire on board and that the airliner was in perfect condition.

Four hours later the airliner resumed its flight.