Source: Simon Hradecky | www.avherald.com

A British Airways Airbus A319-100, registration G-EUPG performing flight BA-1489 from Glasgow,SC to London Heathrow,EN (UK), was descending towards London when the crew observed a burning odour in the cockpit and donned their oxygen masks. A fault message concerning the vent blower occurred, about 5 minutes later a fault message for the vent extract occurred. The aircraft continued for a safe landing on Heathrow’s runway 27L about 10 minutes after the onset of the odour.

The occurrence aircraft remained on the ground for about 44 hours and returned to service on Feb 10th.