A SAS Scandinavian Airlines Airbus A320-200N, registration SE-RUR performing flight SK-295 from Oslo to Bergen (Norway), was boarding, about 50 passengers had embarked the aircraft when smoke began to emanate from a passenger's suitcase. Flight crew donned their oxygen masks, cabin crew their smoke hoods, evacuated the aircraft and used halogen fire extinguishers to the suitcase which was on fire. After extinguishing the fire the suitcase was taken outside the cabin, where emergency services took over, the fire flared up again and was again extinguished. Police seized the suitcase and its contents.

Norway's Havarikommisjonen reported 8 people were taken to hospitals for observations after suspected inhalation of toxic fumes and were discharged within 48 hours. The occurrence is being investigated.


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