Malaysian Airlines jet makes emergency landing Source: Associated Press Publication date: Feb 21, 2000

PERTH, Australia (AP) -- A Malaysian Airlines flight en route to Perth from Kuala Lumpur made an emergency landing near Exmouth in northwest Western Australia state, airline officials said Tuesday.

Flight KL127 had reported a problem with an oil pressure gauge and the Boeing 777 was cleared to land overnight Monday night at Learmonth airport, about 1,100 kilometers (675 miles) north of Perth.

The problem was "not life-threatening" and Qantas engineers were on their way to Exmouth to fix it, said Bill Ross, a Malaysian Airlines official in Perth.

Ross said the plane and its undisclosed number of passengers was expected to arrive into Perth later Tuesday. (djp)

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-- Hardliner (hardliner@mail.com), February 22, 2000.

This is really wierd. That makes 3 planes with problems doing emergency landings just today at 1:45 pm PST. No flying for me for quite some time!

-- Sammie (sammiex0@yahoo.com), February 22, 2000.

I'm as skeptical as the next guy about all these flight incidents with the MD80 series stabilizer problems, porposing etc., but honestly folks, anyone in the airline industry would be able to tell you that emergency landings are more routine/common than you think. That is your flight crew doing their due diligence when there is any little indication that something *might* be wrong with the plane. Simple, precautionary measure...and anyone on that plane ought to be grateful for this occurence.

Where do I get my info from?...how about from multiple family members who have made their living in the air for the past 30 odd years.

-- (massdelusion@juno.com), February 22, 2000.