Thomas Cook A320 near Brussels on Sep 5th 2014, strange smell in cockpit and cabin

A Thomas Cook Belgium Airbus A320-200, registration OO-TCI performing flight HQ-5508 from Brussels (Belgium) to Tenerife Sur Sofia Reina,CI (Spain) with 180 passengers and 6 crew, was climbing out of Brussels when the crew donned their oxygen masks, declared PAN, stopped the climb at FL080 requesting to enter a hold and reported they had a strange smell in cockpit and cabin, they were investigating. The aircraft returned to Brussels for a safe landing on runway 25R about 50 minutes after departure.

A replacement Airbus A320-200 registration CS-TKP is estimated to reach Tenerife with a delay of 4.5 hours.