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Fire crews scramble at Kelowna airport for unscheduled landing

Unscheduled Landing. Global News

KELOWNA – A four-alarm standby was called at the Kelowna airport over the lunch hour Monday as fire crews prepared for an unscheduled landing.

The pilot of an Air Canada Express Dash 8 reported one of the plane’s two engines was out.

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The plane, with just three crew members on board, landed safely.

Apparently the pilot shut down the engine en route to Castlegar after a gauge wrongly indicated there was a problem with the engine.

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