What: Southwest Airlines twin-engine Boeing 737 en route from Las Vegas’s McCarran Airport to Long Island
Where: McCarran Airport
When: February 12, 2009
Who: 116 passengers , 5 crew members
Why: After takeoff, the left engine started misfiring, and every time it misfired the engine would flame. Nineteen minutes after takeoff, the plane returned to land at McCarran at 3:28 on one engine. Southwestern reportedly said that the engine was not on fire, but witnesses referred to flames.
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