US jetliner makes emergency landing in Cuba after engine trouble

Int.NM Desk: Dhaka, Mar-06,

A Southwest Airlines jetliner taking off from Cuba on a flight to Florida experienced engine trouble and returned to Havana to make an emergency landing on Sunday, Cuban authorities said.

No one was injured in the incident involving Southwest Airlines flight 3923 to Fort Lauderdale, the Cuban civil aviation authority Cacsa said on its Facebook page.

It did not specify how many people were on the Boeing 737.

The plane faced engine trouble at around noon (1700 GMT), the agency said.

The airline did not immediately respond to an AFP request for comment.

Cacsa said that a probe had been launched.

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