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  • Pilot trying emergency landing at Bush Intercontinental Airport Plane landed safely)

    05/02/2006 3:10:56 PM PDT · by oxcart · 401 replies · 11,633+ views
    Houston Chronicle ^ | 05/02/2006
    Houston firefighters are standing by for the emergency landing of a of a 50-passenger jet at Bush Intercontinental Airport, an airport spokesman said today. The Continental Express Embraer 145 took off between 4 and 4:20 p.m., said Rich Fernandez, a spokesman for the Houston Airport System. ``It blew a tire on takeoff and is circling the airport now,'' Fernandez said. ``I do not know what airline this is.'' The Embraer 145 is known as a ``regional jet,'' Fernandez said.