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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