Alaska Airlines makes emergency landing after engine put into idle mid-flight
Alaska Airlines makes emergency landing after engine put into idle mid-flight | Fox News
An Alaska Airlines plane was forced to make an emergency landing in Honolulu, Hawaii, after pilots throttled down one of the plane's engines.Flight 145 was headed to Hawaii from Seattle when an oil filter bypass light came on in the cockpit. The flight crew idled the engine and declared an emergency, but continued to Honolulu where the flight was originally scheduled to land.
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HONOLULU (KHON2) - An Alaska Airlines plane was forced to make an emergency landing in Honolulu after one of its engines was idled after a warning indicator turned on. The Boeing 737-800 landed safely at the Daniel K. Inouye International Airport at 9:50 p.m.
According to State Department of Transportation officials, flight 145 was inbound to Honolulu from Seattle.Alaska Airlines said that an oil filter bypass light illuminated for one of the engines on the plane. Following procedures, the flight crew idled the engine and continued for Honolulu."The captain came on the overhead speaker and just said that they were having overheating of one of the engines so they needed to idle a little bit to try to let it cool off but that were going to have to make a quicker landing than usual. And we were going to have a fire crew ready when we landed just in case. That's about all he said and then he got off quickly," passenger Carrie Mingle said.This was after the plane had already passed the half-way mark from Seattle to Honolulu. "A lot of people on the plane had written emails or texts to their loved ones because they weren't sure what was going to happen," Mingle recalled.