PRINCE ALBERT, Sask. – A Transwest Air plane had to make an emergency landing in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan.
The plane landed safely Tuesday afternoon at the airport and there were no injuries.
More than 20 passengers were on the plane, which was enroute to La Ronge from Prince Albert when it turned around about halfway there.
Leon Sorenson says he flies planes and knew something was wrong because his ears were popping.
Maryanne Tsannie, who was travelling with her husband and two grandchildren aged two and nine months old, says staff told them there was something wrong with the plane and that it was turning around.
Transwest Air has not responded to inquiries about what spurred the landing.
Staff also told passengers to take the “cradle position” as they landed at the Prince Albert Airport.
“You gotta bend over and put your hands in front of you from the seat and you just stay in that position until the plane stops,” Sorenson said.
Passengers were escorted off the plane.
Although Tsannie said she wasn’t worried for herself or her grandchildren, soon after landing she cried and called her daughter in Wollaston Lake to tell her what happened.
Sorenson was on his way to Wollaston Lake, and this was his second flight cancelled in as many days.
“We flew to La Ronge, we were supposed to go to Wollaston but … we couldn’t fly in to Wollaston because of weather.”
Firefighters and other staff at the airport walked through the plane after it landed and before it was towed away to a separate area.
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