An Airbus A350 to Mexico City returned to Paris only few minutes after departure.
Air France flight AF174 departed Aéroport de Paris-Charles de Gaulle terminal 2E today at 16:15 CEST to Mexico MEX.
The scheduled flight time was 11 hours and 50 minutes and the flight was expected to land at 20:32 in Mexico.
The Airbus A350-900 (registration F-HTYA) took off from runway 09R after a long taxi to reach the intersection.
The aircraft stopped the climb at 10,000 feet and immediately contacted ATC to require a quick return to Paris CDG due to a burning smell in the cabin (exclusive info via AIRLIVE sources).
It touched down safely on same runway 09R only 24 minutes after take off and taxied back to the terminal.
