Mesaba plane returns to PIR

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Sunday, Feb. 8, 2009

Updated at 10 a.m. Sunday
Passenger plane lands safely

A commercial airliner, which had just left the Pierre Regional
Airport, had to make an emergency return early Sunday morning after
one of its engines failed.

Officials say the Mesaba Airlines plane, which was headed to Watertown
and then Minneapolis, had left the airport shortly after 7 a.m. Cory
Hoffrogge, coordinator of the Pierre Airport Fire and Rescue Squad,
says the pilot reported a few minutes later that an engine had failed
and that the plane was returning to Pierre.

Hoffrogge says it is standard procedure that when one engine fails,
the plane must return to the airport. The plane landed about 10-15
minutes later without incident.

Pierre Police Office Leasa McFarling says law enforcement, fire and
ambulance crews were dispatched to the airport as a precaution.

A handful of passengers, who had been on board, left the plane. The
flight was canceled.

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