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http://www.canoe.ca/CalgaryNews/cs.cs-02-09-0068.htmlWednesday, February 9, 2000 Planes make emergency landings at Calgary airport
By CAMERON MAXWELL, CALGARY SUN Two planes were forced to make emergency landings at Calgary International Airport yesterday.
One was a Falcon-100 jet that lost one of its two engines, while the other was a Northwest Airlines DC-9 that had mechanical problems.
The Falcon, a plane similar to a Learjet, with five passengers on board, was en route from Winnipeg to Vancouver.
It landed safely in Calgary with one engine at about 1:30 p.m., said Wayne Reimer, the airport duty manager.
In the morning, a Northwest Airlines jet bound for Minneapolis with 72 passengers on board, turned around about 30 minutes after takeoff because of a mechanical malfunction.
Fire crews were on standby when the plane landed safely at 9:10 a.m. No passengers were injured on either flight.
-- Martin Thompson (mthom1927@aol.com), February 09, 2000