Wednesday, April 12, 2000 Plane Makes Emergency Landing

The Associated Press An American Airlines MD-80 passenger jet made an emergency landing at Albuquerque's airport Tuesday evening. Flight 1974 from Los Angeles to Nashville, Tenn., landed without incident and taxied to a gate, where the 55 passengers and crew got off the twin-engine airplane. Airport spokeswoman Maggie Santiago said the crew had reported possible problems with a generator. American Airlines officials in Fort Worth, Texas, said late Tuesday that a ground crew was going over the plane and looking for anything unusual. Santiago said the airline booked passengers on other flights headed to Nashville.

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-- Martin Thompson (mthom1927@aol.com), April 12, 2000