Six people injured after American Airlines plane makes ‘hard landing’ at Maui airport

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One passenger and 5 members of cabin crew have been taken to hospital after an American Airlines flight made a “hard landing” at an airport in Hawaii.

All six have been in steady situation and subsequently launched from medical care. The plane taxied to the gate as regular, and the remainder of the 167 passengers and two remaining crew members disembarked usually.

Flight 271 had landed at Kahului airport, on the island of Maui, at round 2pm native time on 27 January, having taken off earlier that day from Los Angeles. Maui police division mentioned that officers responded to a name at the airport at round 2.21pm.

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is known to be investigating the incident, and that the plane has been faraway from service whereas inspections happen.

The Independent has contacted American Airlines for remark. The airline informed NBC News that the plane “experienced an issue upon landing”.

According to the airport in Maui, the flight was resulting from arrive at 12.47pm, greater than an hour earlier than it truly touched down in Hawaii. The plane taxied at LAX for greater than an hour earlier than leaving the bottom, reviews NBC News.

The incident comes at a turbulent time for US airways, with the grounding of 737 Max 9 plane following a high-profile occasion at the beginning of the 12 months during which the door plug of an Alaska Airlines plane blew out shortly after taking off.

The plane returned to service between 26 January to twenty-eight January after the FAA accredited an inspection course of.

In unrelated incidents, on 18 January an American Airlines plane slid off the runway shortly after touchdown in snowy situations at Rochester airport in New York. A number of days later, a flight between Texas and North Carolina was diverted to Houston after reviews of a hearth onboard.