the autopilot quit and some radio communications were disrupted aboard a Frontier Airlines plane shortly before the pilots made a fiery but safe emergency landing in Las Vegas earlier this month.
"We began an immediate search on what could have potentially been a downed airplane, not knowing at that time if we had a hard landing, soft landing," said Van Buren County Judge Dale James.
5 flight from San Diego. No one among the 190 passengers and seven crew members was injured. Federal investigators say crew members declared an emergency about 19 minutes before the landing.