News Channels Cover Aborted AA Flight

By Chris Ariens 

An American Airlines flight bound for Honolulu returned to Los Angeles Intl. airport after smoke was discovered in the passenger cabin. The local stations’ choppers hovered over the 757 as its emergency slides were deployed and passengers jumped out.







Fox station KTTV happened to also show live pictures of the new Emirates Airlines Airbus A380 as it landed on a nearby runway. The flight was arriving from New York. About 250 guests have been invited to take part in a two-hour “familiarization” flight this morning.

Back to the AA flight. TVNewser intern Ethan reminds us it costs “tens of thousands of dollars” to repack each of those emergency chutes onto the plane.

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