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    US Airways Flight Returned to Bluegrass Airport for Emergency Landing

    US AirwaysA US Airways flight returned to Bluegrass Airport, Lexington, Kentucky, immediately after taking off at around 12:40 p.m. on June 14 and made a safe emergency landing.

    The small plane was scheduled to go to Philadelphia with 33 people on-board.

    Airport officials said that the decision for emergency landing was made after the thrust reverser of the plane, which is used to slow the plane down during a landing, got overheated.