Hoghton, MI - Officials say a passenger airplane heading from Chicago made an emergency landing in the Upper Peninsula after an alarm indicated possible smoke in a cargo area. No one was injured in Wednesday night’s landing of SkyWest Airlines flight 5061 at Houghton County Memorial Airport. SkyWest says in a statement that the plane, operating as a United Express flight from O’Hare International Airport, received a ‘cargo indication’ before its scheduled landing at the airport. The airline says the plane landed without incident and all 31-passengers left the plane at the gate.
The Houghton County Sheriff’s office says the alarm was “about smoke in the cargo area.” Officials are investigating what tripped the alarm.
