On the third day of the new route, the new TAP aircraft was on the ground. With marked departure from Boston towards Lisbon, the flight should have taken off at 19:45 on Monday (over five hours in Lisbon).
But a “technical malfunction” in the new Airbus A330 left 256 passengers ashore , advanced official source of the TAP Business this Tuesday, June 14th. This aircraft had flown without problems between the two shores of the Atlantic in the previous six flights since Saturday, stressed the source of TAP.
Among the passengers as the inaugural flight, are the president of TAP Fernando Pinto, and the US ambassador in Portugal, Robert Sherman.
Because of the breakdown, passengers spent the night in Boston city hotels. The return to Lisbon is scheduled for 18:30 of Lisbon.
From Lisbon has already left a plane TAP with a team of mechanics on board in order to solve the “technical anomaly” in the new A330. This flight will then return to the capital today with 256 passengers are in Boston.
The daily route between the Portuguese capital and the capital of the state of Massachusetts was inaugurated on Saturday. “We are seeing a big change today,” said Fernando Pinto, CEO of TAP, in the opening speech of the route. After 20 years, the Portuguese company returned to fly to Boston.
As part of the strengthening of flights to the US market, TAP received this month two Airbus A330-200 aircraft. One of them is the plane had a breakdown in Boston, while the second is not yet in operation.
(News updated at 10:35)
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