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MIDWAY — After a bird was sucked into one of the engines, a Southwest Airlines plane on the way to Las Vegas made an emergency landing at Midway International Airport Thursday morning, according to authorities.
The flight captain of Flight #105, a Boeing 737-800, took off at 9:56 a.m. and safely landed the plane at 10:07 a.m.
All 164 passengers and six crew members on board were safe at landing, the airline said in a statement:
“They will be accommodated on another aircraft and will arrive in Las Vegas approximately three hours late.”
Southwest Airlines Flight 105 Returns to Midway After Ingesting a Bird https://t.co/X3nBBJTJCb pic.twitter.com/1ZUhDWMTnj
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