{"id":4131,"date":"2019-03-27T22:20:24","date_gmt":"2019-03-28T03:20:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=4131"},"modified":"2019-03-27T22:20:29","modified_gmt":"2019-03-28T03:20:29","slug":"southwest-737-max-makes-emergency-landing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=4131","title":{"rendered":"Southwest 737 MAX Makes Emergency Landing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/SWA.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4132\" width=\"595\" height=\"396\" srcset=\"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/SWA.jpg 800w, https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/SWA-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/SWA-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 595px) 100vw, 595px\" \/><figcaption>FILE PHOTO: A Southwest Airlines Boeing 737 MAX 8 aircraft is pictured in front of United Airlines planes, including Boeing 737 MAX 9 models, at William P. Hobby Airport in Houston, Texas, U.S., March 18, 2019. REUTERS\/Loren Elliott<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>(Reuters) &#8211; A Southwest Airlines Co Boeing 737 MAX 8 heading to the California desert for parking during a global ban of the aircraft made an emergency landing on Tuesday due to an engine-related problem shortly after take-off, the carrier said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It did not have any passengers and the issue was not related to a computer system on the 737 MAX aircraft that has come under scrutiny following two fatal crashes, one on Lion Air and another on Ethiopian Airlines, since October, the airline said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The crew followed protocol and safely landed back at the airport,&#8221; Southwest said in a statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Southwest Flight 8701 returned to Orlando International Airport just before 3 p.m. ET (1900 GMT) after pilots reported a performance issue with one of the engines, the airline said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The flight was scheduled to fly from Orlando to a logistics airport in Victorville, California, near the Mojave desert, where Southwest began flying its fleet of 34 MAX jets for storage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration grounded the 737 MAX following the two crashes but has allowed airlines to conduct flights without passengers to move planes to other airports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A Boeing spokesman said the company was &#8220;aware of the incident and supporting our customer.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rather than fly to California, Southwest said the plane will be moved to an Orlando maintenance facility for review.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Reporting by David Shepardson and Tracy Rucinski; editing by Grant McCool and Howard Goller)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><br><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Southwest Airlines Co Boeing 737 MAX 8 heading to the California desert for parking during a global ban of the aircraft made an emergency landing on Tuesday due to an engine-related problem shortly after take-off, the carrier said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[797,89,799,868,1103],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-airline-news","category-aviation-news","category-boeing-news","category-transportation-news","category-travel-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4131"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4133,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4131\/revisions\/4133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}