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Smokey Charter Flight Takes Basketball Team Off Course

What: World Atlantic Charter flight en route from Westover Airforce Base to Providence
Where: Albany International Airport
When: Jan 25, 2011
Who: UMass men’s baskeball team
Why: Ten minutes after takeoff, smoke was smelled in the plane’s cabin and cockpit. The flight diverted to Albany and made a safe landing.

No one was injured, although there was some praying and some bonding going on.

The team waited around for a replacement plane which took them to Bradford, Pennsylvania where they took a bus to the game.

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