Source: Simon Hradecky | www.avherald.com

An Egypt Air Airbus A330-200 freighter, registration SU-GCJ performing flight MS-540 from Cairo (Egypt) to Cologne (Germany) with 5 crew, was enroute at FL380 about 70nm eastnortheast of Athens (Greece) when the crew reported smoke in the cockpit and diverted the aircraft to Athens. The aircraft landed safely on runway 21R about 20 minutes later.

The aircraft remained on the ground in Athens for 3:45 hours, then continued the flight and reached Cologne with a delay of about 2 hours (flight time from Cairo to Hahn, 1650nm distance, scheduled at 6:20 hours).