American Airlines Flight Makes Emergency Landing 30 Minutes After Take-off Due to 'Mechanical Issue'

An American Airlines level heading from Iowa to Chicago was forced to make an emergency landing soon aft return disconnected owed to a mechanical issue.

Flight 449 took disconnected towards Chicago O'Hare International Airport astatine astir 6:05 a.m. section clip connected Saturday, June 7, only to move backmost to Des Moines International Airport astir 30 minutes into nan journey, Des Moines Register and section outlet KCCI reported.

The aviator decided to make an emergency landing aft encountering an unspecified mechanical issue, Des Moines airdrome communications head Sarah Hoodjer told Des Moines Register. 

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The plane, which carried 119 passengers, landed backmost successful Des Moines astatine 6:40 a.m. Passengers were safely evacuated pinch nary injuries suffered, nan outlet reported, citing Hoodjer.

“Crews are investigating what caused nan abrupt landing,” she told Des Moines Register.

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According to nan outlet, nan mechanical rumor was looked complete aft nan level returned to Des Moines International Airport and was expected to return disconnected erstwhile nan rumor was fixed.

Some of nan passengers waited to get backmost connected nan level aft nan rumor was fixed, while others decided to rebook pinch different American Airlines formation to Chicago.

The hose was scheduled to make 2 much flights to Chicago connected Saturday. One was group to depart astatine 1:50 p.m. and nan different astatine 5:56 p.m. section time, per Des Moines Register. 

PEOPLE has reached retired to nan Des Moines airdrome communications head for comment.