San Fran Bound Delta Flight Makes Emergency Landing at Remote Airfield Near Aleutians
Photo Credit: APA San Francisco-bound Delta Air Lines plane departed from a remote Alaska community near the Aleutian Islands Wednesday afternoon, 10 hours after its passengers’ original jet made an emergency landing there.
Delta sent the replacement plane to Cold Bay after a Boeing 767 landed safely at about 6 a.m. Wednesday with 167 passengers and 11 crew members on board.
The unscheduled landing came after crew members received an engine warning message in the cockpit, Delta spokesman Michael Thomas said.
“Because of that warning indication, out of an abundance of caution and safety they elected to divert to Cold Bay,” he said. “But at no point was the engine shut down in flight.”
No injuries were reported aboard the plane that had departed from Tokyo.
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