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Southwest Emergency Seattle-Saint Louis Diversion to Omaha


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Contact photographer Klaus Ecker

What: Southwest Airlines Boeing 737-300 en route from Seattle to Saint Louis
Where: Omaha
When: Apr 14th 2012
Who: 11 injured
Why: While en route, the plane lost cabin pressure, oxygen masks deployed, and pilots decided to divert to Omaha where they made a safe landing. However on arrival, eleven passengers needed medical attention. Nine of them were treated at the airport with minor injuries, but continued the flight.

A replacement Southwest jet completed the last leg on Saturday.

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