American Airlines flight makes emergency landing after striking bird
An American Airlines plane made an emergency landing at McCarran International Airport after striking a bird Monday morning, airport officials said.
Flight 334 took off from McCarran and was headed for Chicago just after 5 a.m. Monday with 160 passengers and crew on board, McCarran spokeswoman Linda Healey said.
The call about the emergency landing came in about 5:30 a.m. The plane returned to McCarran and landed safely at 5:43 a.m., Healey said.
American Airlines spokeswoman Leslie Scott said the Boeing 737 was taken out of service and that the company's maintenance team was working on it.
Accommodations on other flights were being made for the passengers.
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