A JetBlue flight made an emergency touchdown in Kansas on Saturday after pilots have been alerted to smoke within the shipment cling, however an inspection published it was once a false alarm, the airline stated.The aircraft descended safely and landed “with out incident,” the airline stated in a remark. Flight 1189 was once touring from New York to San Diego when the pilot introduced that an alert was once gained for fireplace or smoke within the shipment cling space, in keeping with passenger Seth Odell. The Salina Airport Authority stated there have been about 130 folks have been on board.”The pilot got here on (the intercom) and tell us that he was once seeing an alert for smoke within the shipment bay,” Odell stated. “Some passengers did record listening to a noisy bang, too, and so we descended extremely all of a sudden and landed within the extraordinarily small airport in Salina.”Odell shared that there was once best about 10 mins between the pilot’s announcement and the following touchdown in Kansas. “So clearly everyone was once beginning to freak out,” Odell stated. “Some folks have been crying. It was once somewhat bit intense for a couple of mins. Team did a perfect activity getting everyone arranged extraordinarily briefly, and clearly when we have been at the flooring, everybody was once simply elated.”The Salina Hearth Division spoke back to the airport at round 6:20 p.m. C.T. and the aircraft landed round 10 mins later, in keeping with Salina Hearth Battalion Leader Derrick Herzog. The dep. helped offload all 130 folks, which incorporated passengers and personnel. No accidents have been reported.Herzog stated there have been no main problems with the aircraft, however indicator lighting fixtures had come on within the cockpit. The problem seems to be {an electrical} one however the fireplace division continues to be looking ahead to engineers to research, he added.The Nationwide Transportation Protection Board didn’t reply to a request for remark. The Federal Aviation Management stated it’ll examine the incident. Odell stated the aircraft’s pilot instructed passengers that there was once no indication of a real fireplace when they had landed.”It appears like they stated some fireplace suppressant was once used within the shipment space, however they’re now not positive if there was once a fireplace,” he stated.
