American Airlines Landed Safely after Emergency

An American Airlines flight landed safely at Eppley Airfield after a scare in the air near Omaha.

Around 9:45 on Monday night, emergency crews at Eppley scrambled into place, after getting an alert that the flight was on its way. Flight 1708 was en-route from Las Vegas to Chicago, when it lost cabin pressure near Omaha.

American Airlines told that the pilot dropped the plane's altitude from 25,000 feet to 14,000 feet and dropped the oxygen masks in the cabin as a precaution. There were 140 passengers and five crew members on board.

The plane landed safely in Omaha just before ten o'clock on Monday night.

American Airlines moved the passengers to another available airplane at Eppley, and they continued on to Chicago. The airline will move another aircraft to Omaha in the morning to replace the one that headed to Chicago. By luck no one was hurt.