Jet Makes Emergency Landing at Crash Site
From United Press International
SIOUX CITY, Iowa —
A crippled jetliner made an emergency landing Wednesday at Sioux Gateway Airport without injury or major damage, exactly a week after the crippled United Airlines Flight 232 crash-landed at the facility, killing 111 of the 296 people aboard.
Northwest Flight 2645, a twin-engine British Aerospace Jet-stream 31 carrying 14 passengers, lost oil pressure and power in its left engine about a half-hour after taking off from Minneapolis en route to Sioux City.
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