An American Airlines flight that had just departed from Chicago O’Hare on Friday afternoon made an emergency return to the airport after flight attendants suspected a fire in the trash can in the rear galley of the Boeing 737-800, with smoke entering the cabin.
American Airlines flight AA-618 departed O’Hare at around 12:19 pm on October 16 for what should have been a routine two-hour flight to Dallas-Fort Worth. But just minutes after takeoff, and with the aircraft still in its initial descent, the pilots declared a “Mayday” emergency.
As air traffic control was given the pilots’ new instructions for their climb out of O’Hare, one of the pilots reported: “Mayday, Mayday, Mayday… American 618, fire in the cabin.”…