An Air Canada flight bound from Vancouver to Anchorage, Alaska, returned mid-flight on Sunday after engine trouble.
Flight AC 538 departed Vancouver International Airport at 1:10 p.m. Sunday and was scheduled to make a three-hour flight to Anchorage, according to flight records.
Just over halfway into the trip, the twin-engine aircraft turned around and returned to YVR.
YVR spokeswoman Andrea Pham saidthe flight landed safely.
In a prepared statement, Air Canada said the flight had 112 passengers and had returned to Vancouver after an engine was shutdown.
“Aircraft are designed to fly on one engine and our pilots are trained for such situations,” the airline said.
Flight Aware shows that the plane, an Airbus 320 aircraft, touched down around 3:06 p.m. in Vancouver.
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