www.pit5.com saves this page so readers can view old news that may not still be availible elsewhere.
This is a saved page of Smoke fills cabin of NWA flight (5 Eyewitness News)
This is a copy we made of the page on 27-Jul-2006.
The original page may or may not still be availible and pictures and text may have changed since then.
Click Here to view the original page at the original website.


Smoke fills cabin of NWA flight
    
   Minneapolis/St. Paul  °    
Text Only                                                                                                                     CLICK HERE TO MAKE KSTP.COM YOUR HOME PAGE 
Smoke fills cabin of NWA flight
Updated: 07/27/2006 07:35:17 AM
Print Story | Email to a Friend

FREELAND, Mich. (AP) - Smoke began filling a Toronto-bound Northwest Airlines Corp. plane with 82 passengers and five crew members aboard, forcing it to make an emergency landing in central Michigan, an airline spokesman says.

Flight 884 made a safe landing at MBS International Airport about 9:20 p.m. EDT, 80 minutes after it left Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport, said Northwest spokesman David Rivard.

A crew made repairs and the plane left for Toronto International Airport about 11:20 p.m., Rivard said.

The smoke entered the cabin because of a minor problem with a fan, Rivard told WSGW-AM in Saginaw.

MBS International Airport in Freeland serves the Midland-Bay City-Saginaw area.