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Airliner engine sucks in luggage cart

(Agencies)
Updated: 2009-05-12 11:10

Aviation authorities say a luggage cart was drawn into an engine of a Boeing 747 as it was leaving a terminal gate at Los Angeles International Airport.

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Airport spokesman Marshall Lowe says the incident occurred Monday afternoon as Japan Airlines Flight 61 to Narita was pushing back from the terminal gate.

Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Ian Gregor says a baggage cart was being towed by at the same time and the engine ingested one of the containers.

The object was lodged in the outer left-side engine of the four-engine jet.

The 245 passengers were taken back to the terminal. Japan Airlines was making alternate flight arrangements for them.

The Boeing 747-400 was towed to a hangar, where federal aviation officials were investigating.