American Eagle E145 near Greenville on Mar 5th 2014, smoke in cockpit

An American Eagle Embraer ERJ-145, registration N696AE performing flight MQ-3400 from Dallas Ft. Worth,TX to Moline,IL (USA) with 45 passengers and 3 crew, was climbing through FL210 out of Dallas Ft. Worth when the crew reported smoke in the cockpit and decided to divert to Greenville,TX, about 50nm northeast of DFW Airport, for a safe landing about 10 minutes later and was evacuated. Emergency services jumped into action.

The remainder of the flight was cancelled, the passengers were bussed back to Dallas Ft. Worth and were rebooked onto other flights.

A passenger reported that fire fighters did extinguish something on board of the aircraft.

The airline said the source of the smoke is under investigation.

The FAA reported an electrical component failure caused the smoke.