Crews assess JetBlue plane after emergency landing

Published April 1, 2014 7:44pm ET



KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) — Maintenance teams were evaluating a JetBlue plane at a Jamaican airport on Tuesday, a day after the Florida-bound jetliner was forced to return to the island because the flight crew smelled smoke minutes after takeoff.

Alfred McDonald, a senior director at Jamaica’s Norman Manley International Airport in Kingston, said assessments of the Embraer 190 plane were still being completed and officials didn’t yet have a full picture of what happened Monday night.

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