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What: Delta Airlines Boeing 737-800,en route from Baltimore to Saint Petersburg
Where: Jacksonville
When: Sep 30th 2012
Who: Baltimore Orioles
Why: Smoke was reported aboard the Baltimore Orioles flight from Baltimore to Tampa for a Monday game.
Ned Rice, of Orioles operations said that “They came on and told us we needed to make an emergency landing, and then we were nearly free-falling for a few minutes as they raced to get us on the ground as fast as possible.”
The smoke originated in the galley.
The pilots diverted to Jackson and made a safe landing, where the plane was inspected and cleared before continuing to St. Pete.
IndiGo flight 6E-237 made an emergency landing in Kolkata, India, on December 10th.
