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Wednesday, August 6, 2008

American Flight Evacuated at LAX

An American Airlines Boeing 757 made an emergency landing and was evacuated at Los Angeles International on Aug. 5 after indications of a fire in the passenger cabin. There were no injuries among the 188 passengers and six crew members on Flight 31, which had just departed LAX for Honolulu., an American Airlines spokesman. The flight deck crew elected to turn around after someone smelled smoke in the cabin, but no sign of fire was found on the jetliner using thermal imaging cameras that scanned the cabin and cargo hold. The captain elected to declare an emergency and get everybody out of the aircraft via the emergency slides. American, the National Transportation and Safety Board and the Federal Aviation Administration will investigate.
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