Flight Crew Instrument; Flight Crew Multiengine; Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP)
Flight Crew Total 11326; Flight Crew Type 449
Troubleshooting
Aircraft Equipment Problem Less Severe; Flight Deck / Cabin / Aircraft Event Smoke / Fire / Fumes / Odor
Flight Crew Diverted
Aircraft
I was the Captain and I was on rest break. My co-pilot woke me and told me the relief pilots had called him and told him that there was an electrical burning smell in the cockpit and cabin. When I arrived back in the cockpit; the relief pilots told me we had lost our #1 L Cabin Air Compressor (CAC). We assumed that the fumes we were smelling was from the failed CAC. We contacted Dispatch and had them patch us in to [Maintenance Control]. We wanted to run the fumes removal checklist. Together we ran the fumes removal checklist; but there were still strong electrical fumes in the cockpit. We talked to the [Chief Pilot] and together we felt the best and safest course of action was to divert.
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B787 flight crew reported a cabin air compressor failure resulted in cabin fumes and a diversion.