South-Carolina
Airplane forced to make emergency landing after taking off in South Carolina
BATON ROUGE, La. (WBTV) – A United Airlines flight that took off from South Carolina had to make an emergency landing in Louisiana on Tuesday.
Sister station WAFB said the airplane departed from Charleston Tuesday morning, but mechanical problems forced it to land at the Baton Rouge Metropolitan Airport. Pilots intended to land in New Orleans but were unable to due to visibility issues.
WAFB reported that 123 passengers were on the plane, and that United sent a recovery flight to Baton Rouge.
The plane was originally heading to Houston.
The nature of the mechanical problems were not immediately disclosed.
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