From the FAA:
IDENTIFICATION Regis#: 957AT Make/Model: B712 Description: 717-200
Date: 03/27/2003 Time: 0347
Event Type: Incident Highest Injury: Minor Mid Air: N Missing: N
Damage: Unknown
LOCATION City: LAGUARDIA State: NY Country: US
DESCRIPTION
AIR TRAN AIRWAYS INC, TRS-356, B717-200 ACFT LANDED RUNWAY 4 AFTER DECLARING AN EMERGENCY, ON TAXIWAY F PASSENGERS EVACUATED VIA CHUTES, 7 OCCUPANTS REPORTED INJURIES, AND UNKNOWN DAMAGE TO THE ACFT, OTHER CIRCUMSTANCES ARE UNKNOWN, LAGUARDIA, NY
INJURY DATA Total Fatal: 0
# Crew: 0 Fat: 0 Ser: 0 Min: 0 Unk: Y
# Pass: 0 Fat: 0 Ser: 0 Min: 7 Unk: Y
And from
www.ny1.com:
Nine people suffered minor injuries while evacuating a plane at LaGuardia Airport Wednesday.
The AirTran flight from Atlanta landed at LaGuardia Airport safely despite an electrical problem that disabled some computer screens and other equipment and turned off the lights in the cabin.
The 78 passengers and five crew members on board exited the plane with emergency chutes. Nine people were injured on the slides, five of whom were taken to a hospital.
The airport's two runways were closed for 45 minutes.
I caught the end of a 'film at 11' segment on TV, but of course there was nothing intelligent about possible cause(s).