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SAY THEY EXPERIENCED
TENSE MOMENTS ON A FLIGHT
INTO
NEWPORT NEWS LAST NIGHT.
THEY SAY A U-S AIRWAYS
PILOT HAD
TO CIRCLE THE RUNWAY,
BECAUSE HE COULD NOT LAND
THE PLANE.
10 ON YOUR'S SIDE'S
LAUREN COMPTON IS LIVE AT
THE NEWPORT
NEWS/WILLIAMSBURG
INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT
WITH MORE. SO LAUREN-
WHAT HAPPENED ?
NICOLE, WELL LITTLE AFTER
11:30 HERE AN U-S AIWAYS
FLIGHT WAS COMING IN
HERE. PASSENGERS SAY IT
WAS NORMAL FLIGHT UNTIL
THE LANDING. PASSENGERS
WE SPOKE TO SAY THE
PILOT TOLD THEM THEY
AROUND, AND TRIED TO
REACH THE
AIRPORT STAFF ABOUT THE
PROBLEM.
ABOUT SIX MONTHS AGO -
THIS AIRPORT SWITCHED TO
RADIO ACTIVATED LED
LIGHTS. AND, THE AIRPORT
SPOKEPERSON SAYS
ITS THE PILOTS
RESPONBILITY TO TURN THEM
ON. WELL, A SPOKESPERSON
WITH U-S AIRWAYS SAID
THAT'S EXACTLY
WHAT THEY PILOT TRIED TO
DO... BUT THE LIGHT
WEREN'T WORKING THAT WHY
HE CIRCLED BACK. BUT,
THE AIPORT SAYS THAT'S
NOT
TRUE--- THE LIGHTS WERE
IN PERFECT CONDITION.
THE AIRPORT SPOKESPERSON
SAYS THE PILOT IS AT
FAULT HERE NOT
THEM. PASSENGERS
DESCRIBED FOR WHAT IT WAS
LIKE INSIDE THE PLANE AS
THEY PILOT CLOSING TO
TOUCHING
DOWN--HAD TO CIRCLE BACK.
"I THOUGHT WE WERE IN
TROUBLE, AND THAT WAS
REALLY... MY HEART
WAS RACING, AND I REALLY
THE AIRPORT SPOKESPERSON
SAYS THIS IS THE FIRST
PROBLEM
THEY HAVE HAD WITH THE
RUNWAY LIGHTS SINCE THEY
CHANGED THEM SIX
MONTH AGO. LIVE IN
NEWPORT NEWS, LAUREN
COMPTON 10 ON YOUR SIDE.