Passenger jet makes emergency landing in Fresno

FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – A formation from Salt Lake City to Oakland was forced to marque an exigency landing successful Fresno connected Monday soon earlier midnight, according to SkyWest Airlines.

SkyWest says formation 3797, which is operated arsenic Delta Connection, was taking passengers from Salt Lake City to Oakland erstwhile it was diverted to Fresno "out of an abundance of caution pursuing a mechanical indication."

Fresno Fire says it responded to the exigency landing aft receiving a study of a substance problem. Officials accidental the level landed safely, and mechanics connected the crushed did not find a substance leak.

Delta Embraer E170, the aforesaid benignant of level operated by SkyWest Airlines for formation 3797

“We apologize for the inconvenience and are moving to guarantee each passengers scope their destination safely and arsenic rapidly arsenic possible,” said SkyWest Airlines successful a connection to YourCentralValley.com.

The formation was connected an Embraer E170, which Delta says has a full capableness of 69 passengers.

Flight trackers amusement that Skywest Flight 3797 took disconnected again from Fresno astatine astir noon and landed successful Oakland astir 30 minutes later.