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Flight Returns To BWI Due To Cockpit Smoke

LINTHICUM, Md. -- A Southwest Airlines spokeswoman said smoke from a faulty cockpit fan and not a fire prompted a flight to return to Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport shortly after takeoff Sunday.

Southwest spokeswoman Whitney Eichinger said the fan was changed after landing and the flight to Norfolk, Va. was expected to take off again later Sunday afternoon.

BWI spokeswoman Cheryl Stewart said the plane returned due to a cockpit fire, landed without incident and no one was injured.

Southwest Flight 121 took off at 2:43 p.m. and landed at 2:50 p.m., the airport spokeswoman said. Both spokeswomen said they did not know if the smoke was visible in the passenger cabin.

> To: Scan-DC at mailman.qth.net
> From: cohenner at gmail.com
> Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2008 18:54:00 +0000
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> Subject: [Scan-DC] BWI
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> Any word on an aircraft fire or something other than just an Alert 2 there?
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