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Big Scare for the Passengers of This Air France Flight: the Plane Suffered an Electrical Breakdown

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A victim of an electrical breakdown on Friday, August 8, an Airbus A350 Air France connecting Paris to São Paulo had to be diverted to a Portuguese military base on the Azores archipelago. The passengers finally reached their destination several hours late.

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The Airbus A350-900, which was on its way to São Paulo from Paris, finally landed on an air base on a Portuguese island of the Azores in the Atlantic Ocean, as a precautionary measure.

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A victim of an electrical breakdown on Friday, August 8, an Airbus A350 Air France connecting Paris to São Paulo had to be diverted to a Portuguese military base on the Azores archipelago. The passengers finally reached their destination several hours late.

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On Friday, 8 August, in the middle of a flight between Paris and São Paulo, an Airbus A350 from Air France suffered an electrical breakdown, forcing the crew to launch a distress signal and to depart to a Portuguese military base. The aircraft landed smoothly, but the passengers' journey was greatly delayed.

The Air France AF460 flight from Paris to CDG to São Paulo on Friday, August 8, 2025 was diverted to the Portuguese Azores due to an electrical breakdown, according to the AirNav Radar aircraft tracking site. While the aircraft, an Airbus A350-900 registered F-HTYC, was flying parallel over the Spanish Canary Islands, an electrical breakdown occurred, forcing the crew to call Mayday. To ensure the safety of passengers, the crew proceeded to a di…

A plane from the company Air France, which linked between Paris, France, and São Paulo, in Brazil, was transferred to the Third Island, in the Azores, after facing technical problems, on the last Saturday. According to the Aeroin flight news site, Airbus A350-900 suffered an electric failure when crossing the parallel of the Canary Islands in the region west of the Spanish archipelago, and ended up being declared 'Mayday' - a word code for emerg…

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Airbus A350 was retreated to the military base of the Lages, after a strange smell was detected in the cabin. Passengers landed safely. Another aircraft was sent to the Portuguese archipelago.

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