Plane makes emergency landing at local airport
Airport officials said today that Sarasota-bound flight made an emergency landing at St. Petersburg-Clearwater International Airport because of a mechanical problem, the Associated Press reports. Michele Routh, a spokeswoman for the airport, said the USA 3000 Airlines flight from Chicago landed here about 9:30 p.m. Monday. A subsequent inspection of the plane showed no problems, Routh said.
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I have been trying to contact USA 3000 since yesterday..How can they say inspection of the plane showed no problems? why did they frighten the passengers? was the pilot lying? The airline will not answer emails or phone calls. I want to know why my family was put through this ordeal.
Posted by: laurie | January 29, 2008 at 08:38 PM
Hi,I don't work for any airline, but it could have been an indicator light or a gauge reading that caused the emergency landing.It's better to be safe than sorry when you're flying a plane,so pilots do land as soon as possible when any question arises.Then after checking it out, no problem was found.It happens all the time.
Posted by: tigerpaw | January 31, 2008 at 12:03 PM