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Colo.-Bound Plane Forced To Make Emergency Landing
No Injures Reported From "Pressurization Problem"
POSTED: 2:37 pm MDT March 21, 2010
HAYDEN, Colo. -- A pressurization problem forced an emergency landing for a plane flying from Chicago to Colorado.No one was injured when American Airlines flight 2363 had to make an emergency landing at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport Sunday morning. Flight 2363 was scheduled to arrive at the Yampa Valley Airport in Hayden, Colo., late Sunday morning.Chicago Department of Aviation spokeswoman Karen Pride said there was "a pressurization problem."
The flight was scheduled to take off from O'Hare at 8:45 a.m. MDT, and land at Yampa Valley Airport at 11:35 a.m. MDT.Yampa Valley Airport is near Highway 40 between Craig and Steamboat Springs.The plane arrived at the Yampa Valley Airport nearly two hours late, at 1:17 p.m. MDT.Chicago Fire Department spokesman Larry Langford said there were 119 people aboard the Boeing 737.
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