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A Lufthansa flight has been forced to land after a broken coffee machine started spewing smoke into the cabin.
The Airbus A319 from Frankfurt bound for Gothenburg, Sweden, had to make an emergency landing at Hamburg Airport.
According to the company, there was a “short-term local smoke development in the front galley”. The cockpit crew then “declared an air emergency in accordance with the specified procedures” in order to get a “prioritized landing” in Hamburg.
German newspaper Bild reported the cause of the smoke was a busted coffee machine.
The plane landed normally. Thankfully no passengers were reported hurt. Pictures taken at Hamburg airport showed a large number of emergency service vehicles swarming the plane after landing.
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Passengers are evacuated from a plane at Hamburg Airport during a previous incident (Getty Images)In other flight related news.
A mum-of-two died suddenly on a flight back from the Dominican Republic leaving stunned doctors trying to figure out what happened.
Reports suggest she was full of life on her holiday. Stefanie Smith's heartbroken brother Chris Volz said: "Everything I've seen in videos, they had a great time." She was flying back to Charlotte, North Carolina, when she suddenly died.
The 41-year-old's family didn't know of any health problems she might have had and they have been left clueless as to what could have happened. The plane was forced to land in Turks and Caicos quickly because Stefanie had a very serious health deterioration, and she was taken to a hospital there, but sadly didn't make it.
Her family want to send their own doctor to the Caribbean to check what happened before Stefanie's body is brought back to the US for a funeral.
There are "still a lot of unknowns," said Chris, reports the New York Post. Chris shared that when he first got the sad news about his sister from his parents on Wednesday night, he just couldn't "believe it's true," feeling like everything was happening in "slow motion."
Chris said he will really miss how often Stefanie used to ring him up just to say she loved him.
One of the unfortunate woman's work pals wrote on social media that she was finding it hard to come to terms with her friend's sudden passing. Kristina Swinney wrote on Thursday: "I can't remember the last time I've felt heartache like this. The news today has shattered us."
"My days at work will forever be changed," she said, remembering how they had just chatted "about how you wouldn't let anyone have a bad day ... you weren't having any part of it."
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Swinney spoke of her friend as "the energy of work" at the Memorial Hospital of South Bend, where Stefanie worked as an X-ray technician. "Looking to my left today, seeing you gone, knowing you aren't coming back has left me a mess, Stef," she wrote. "It's empty and quiet. The only peace I have is knowing where you are now."
Swinney has since started an online fundraiser for Smith's kids, Coen and Macee, who Volz said are being looked after by their dad and other family members.
He said his sister's main focus in life was looking after her children, and Swinney described the teenagers as Smith's "everything."