A major air disaster was averted after an Alaska Airlines plane was forced to make an emergency landing in Honolulu, Hawaii, after pilots throttled down one of the plane’s engines.
Flight 145 was headed to Hawaii from Seattle when an oil filter bypass light came on in the cockpit.
The flight crew idled the engine and declared an emergency, but continued to Honolulu where the flight was originally scheduled to land.
“The captain came on the overhead speaker and just said that they were having overheating of one of the engines so they needed to idle a little bit to try to let it cool off but that were going to have to make a quicker landing than usual.
“And we were going to have a fire crew ready when we landed just in case.
“That is about all he said and then he got off quickly,” passenger Carrie Mingle said.
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