NT9301 - Incident: Binter E295 near Lanzarote on Dec 14th 2021

A Binter Canaria Embraer ERJ-195-E2, registration EC-NFA performing flight NT-9301 from Turin (Italy) to Las Palmas,CI (Spain), was enroute at FL290 about 240nm northnortheast of Las Palmas when the crew received a cargo smoke indication and decided to divert to Lanzarote,CI (Spain), about 150nm from their present position. The aircraft landed safely on Lanzarote's runway 03 about 30 minutes later.

The airline reported that an examination determined a fire detector had failed causing a false alarm, there were no traces of fire, heat or smoke.

The aircraft remained on the ground for about 3:15 hours, then continued to Las Palmas and reached the destination with a delay of about 3:10 hours.