An El Al Boeing 747-400, registration 4X-ELD performing flight LY-7 from Tel Aviv (Israel) to New York JFK,NY (USA) with 338 people on board, was enroute at FL340 about 140nm northwest of Shannon (Ireland) about to enter Oceanic Airspace, when the crew decided to turn around without requesting priority and set course in direction of London,EN (UK). About 20 minutes later while descending through FL210 about 50nm east of Shannon the crew declared PAN reporting an unidentified smell of smoke in the main cabin and requested to now divert to Shannon (Ireland). The aircraft landed safely on Shannon's runway 24 about 25 minutes after declaring PAN, backtracked the runway and taxied to the apron with emergency services following the aircraft.

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The airport currently estimates the flight to continue on Nov 6th at 02:00L (02:00Z)