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Yakima Emergency Landing


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Contact photographer Andrew Compolo

What: Frontier Airlines Airbus A319-100 en route from Seattle to Denver
Where: Yakima
When: Dec 14th 2011
Who: 138 passengers
Why: While en route, the plane developed smoke in the aft galley.

Pilots diverted to Yakima, where they made a safe landing with emergency services on standby. The call came in at 9:22 a.m.and the plane landed at 9:40.

It was determined that the source of the smoke seems to have been a coffee pot or oven in the galley. A replacement jet was provided.

In George’s Point of View

The source of the problem could have been an electrical short, and the air quality may have been affected, so despite jokes about landing over kitchen equipment, the airport manager and airline management stand by the pilots decisions, which are based on correct emergency response which resulted in no deaths, no injuries.

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