TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — A United Airways jet minimize quick a flight Wednesday and landed in Tampa, Florida, after pilots have been alerted a few attainable concern with a door, in keeping with an airport spokesperson.
The airplane took off later “after the difficulty was addressed,” the airline stated Thursday.
The airplane concerned was an Airbus A319. Final week, a plug that takes the place of a door on some Boeing Max 9 jetliners blew off an Alaska Airways airplane shortly after takeoff from Portland, Oregon.
An spokesperson for the Tampa airport stated the preliminary report back to emergency dispatchers was that the airplane diverted as a result of a door indicator gentle turned on. Hearth crews met the airplane.
A United spokesperson stated the flight, from Sarasota, Florida, to Chicago, diverted to Tampa “as a precaution … to handle a attainable mechanical concern. The flight landed safely and later re-departed after the difficulty was addressed.”
The airplane carried 123 passengers and 5 crew members and was airborne for lower than an hour, in keeping with information from monitoring service FlightAware.
The diversion was reported earlier by WFLA-TV.
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