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Costa Rica Bound Plane
Forced To Make Emergency Landing
In Florida
A big scare led to an
unscheduled landing for some 220
Toronto passengers on board a
jet taking them to Costa Rica
Monday.
A Skyservice flight heading to
Costa Rica had been in the air
over Florida after leaving
Toronto earlier in the day. But
when strange fumes began wafting
into the cabin, the plane was
forced to make an emergency
landing in Fort Lauderdale.
The pilot called in his request
to bring the plane down when the
aircraft was about 65 kilometres
away from Fort
Lauderdale-Hollywood
International Airport.
"In an abundance of caution, he
called it in - as he's required
to - and asked for priority
landing clearance, which he got
and landed on our runway,"
explains the airport's Gregory
Meyer.
Everyone got off while officials
checked the plane. So far,
there's no explanation about
where those mysterious fumes
came from.
A spokesman for the airline
calls the diversion "routine"
and points out no one was hurt
in the detour.
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