Jet Makes Safe Landing After Smoke Fills Cabin
United Press International
CLEVELAND — A Continental Airlines jet with 108 people aboard made an emergency landing Sunday at Cleveland Hopkins International Airport after the cabin filled with smoke that apparently came from a passenger’s luggage, airline officials said.
“It appears there was something in a passenger’s hand-carried luggage that created smoke in the cabin,” said Continental spokesman Bruce Hicks. No one aboard Flight 159, out of Newark, N.J., was injured.
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