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Passenger Jet Makes Emergency Landing At Mineta San Jose

SAN JOSE (CBS/AP) -- An Alaska Airlines flight bound for Seattle from the Los Angeles area has made an emergency landing at Mineta San Jose International Airport Wednesday morning.

Federal Aviation Administration officials said the flight landed safely at 7:45 a.m. Wednesday, about an hour and 17 minutes after it took off from the airport in Ontario, about 37 miles east of Los Angeles.

The plane apparently experienced electrical, pressurization and flight control problems.

 

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