Incident: Air Canada B773 enroute on Dec 23rd 2010, smoke in cabin

An Air Canada Boeing 777-300, registration C-FIVM performing flight AC-7 from Toronto,ON to Vancouver,BC (Canada) with 360 people on board, was enroute when smoke began to emanate from underneath passenger seat 63E. Cabin crew removed the seat cushion and identified the source of the smoke to be an inflight entertainment electrical box. The power to the inflight entertainment system was turned off and two fire extinguishers discharged. The smoke dissipated so that the crew decided to continue the flight to Vancouver for a safe landing about 2 hours later.

The Canadian TSB reported, that no emergency was declared. Maintenance is investigating.

Source: The Aviation Herald (http://avherald.com/h?article=43567a70&opt=0)