Southwest Airways airplane makes emergency touchdown in Havana after cabin fills with smoke

HAVANA (Reuters) – A Southwest Airways airplane certain for Fort Lauderdale from Havana was compelled to return to Cuba’s Jose Marti Airport Sunday after an engine reportedly caught hearth following a hen strike, in line with passenger mobile phone video and media stories.

NBC 6 Information in Florida reported a Southwest Airways spokesperson had confirmed the incident.

“Southwest flight #3923 departing Havana, Cuba, for Fort Lauderdale, Florida on Sunday morning reportedly skilled hen strikes to an engine and the plane’s nostril shortly after takeoff,” the spokesperson instructed the tv information channel.

Cellular phone footage confirmed smoke filling the cabin as panicked dad and mom appeared to elucidate to their kids how one can match oxygen masks.

Emergency lighting contained in the airplane was lit and photographs confirmed clients evacuating the jet through emergency slides on the runway at Cuba’s largest airport as firemen and vans regarded on.

The information report stated there had been no critical accidents and that each one passengers had been safely on the bottom in Havana.

(Reporting by Havana newsroom; Enhancing by Kim Coghill)