A JetBlue A321 from New York JFK made an emergency landing after fire indication in the cargo hold.
A JetBlue flight made an emergency landing in Kansas Saturday evening after “a fire-like smoke” was detected, according to the Salina Airport Authority.
The Airbus A321-200 (registration N944JT) was cruising at 36,000 ft when the pilots received the smoke/fire indication.
JetBlue flight #B61189 was traveling from New York to San Diego when the pilot announced that an alert was received for fire or smoke in the cargo hold area.
The aircraft made a rapid descent and landed in the extremely small airport in Salina.
There was only about 10 minutes between the pilot’s announcement and the subsequent landing in Kansas.
The Salina Fire Department responded to the airport at around 6:20 p.m. C.T. and the plane landed around 10 minutes later.
The department helped offload all 130 people, which included passengers and staff. No injuries were reported.
The flight resumed almost 6 hours later, in the middle of the night, with another Airbus A321 aircraft (registration N945JT) which landed at 03:47am PDT in San Diego, CA.
