UAL plane makes emergency landing due to smoke
Posted on: Sunday, 27 August 2006, 13:23 CDT
BOSTON (Reuters) - A United Airlines plane flying from Boston to Chicago with 64 people made an emergency landing without incident on Sunday after the captain detected smoke in the cockpit.
Passengers were whisked off the plane on inflated evacuation slides after touching down at their destination, O'Hare International Airport, at 7:23 a.m., a few minutes ahead of schedule, said Megan McCarthy, a spokeswoman for the airline operated by UAL Corp..
The captain had radioed in and declared an emergency for smoke in the cockpit while the flight was somewhere between Boston and Chicago, McCarthy said.
No fire was reported and further details on the incident were not immediately available pending an investigation, McCarthy said.
One of the flight's 58 passengers sprained her ankle while evacuating the plane. She was treated by paramedics at the airport and released, McCarthy said.
In addition to the passengers, there were two pilots and four flight attendants on board.
Source: REUTERS
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