By AFPMore by this AuthorNOUMEA,A United Airlines Boeing 787-900 jet was diverted to the French Pacific territory of New Caledonia on Monday after reports of smoke coming from the cockpit, a local official told AFP. "The passengers are disembarking calmly," said the official from the local Chamber of Commerce which runs the airport. "It seems that there was some smoke coming out of the cockpit." An Ethiopian Airlines crash that killed 157 people on March 10 led to the global grounding of Boeing 737 MAX 8 planes. The Nouvelles-Caledoniennes (Caledonian News) website reported that oxygen masks automatically dropped down in the cabin of the United Airlines plane.

Source: Daily Nation March 25, 2019 10:52 UTC