US-bound plane makes emergency landing at Scottish airport
A PASSENGER jet was forced into an emergency landing today after a warning light in the cockpit indicated there was a fire in the hold.
The Los Angeles-bound American Airlines plane, carrying 207 passengers and crew, had taken off from London Heathrow but was diverted to Glasgow when the light showed.
The Boeing 777-200 touched down at Glasgow Airport around 1.30pm, a spokesman for airport operator BAA said.
Fire services were on the scene but were not required and it is being treated as a false alarm as no fire was discovered.
All the passengers disembarked after landing.
The BAA spokesman said American Airlines was sending an engineer to Glasgow to check out the problem.
The full article contains 127 words and appears in The Scotsman newspaper.
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Last Updated:
03 March 2008 3:04 PM
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Source:
The Scotsman
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Location:
Edinburgh
