NATION : Airliner Forced Down at Phoenix
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FT. WORTH — A Los Angeles-bound American Airlines DC-10 with 239 passengers was forced to land at Phoenix International Airport when smoke began billowing into the cabin, an airline official said today.
Flight 79 from Dallas made the emergency landing in Phoenix at 8:37 p.m. Sunday after the pilot shut down the center engine of the three-engine airplane.
An American official at the airline’s Ft. Worth headquarters said the engine lost oil pressure and the plane’s air-conditioning unit began sucking smoke into the cabin. The smoke dissipated when the engine was shut down.
Nobody was injured, and passengers switched planes, landing at Los Angeles International Airport about 90 minutes late, the official said.
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