PENSACOLA, Fla. (WKRC) — A large commercial plane with nearly 200 passengers was forced to perform an emergency landing in the middle of the flight.
According to local outlets WEAR and WFTV, the Spirit Airlines flight, an Airbus A320 with 182 passengers, took off from Houston at around 6:30 a.m. bound for Orlando.
At around 8:30 a.m., just as the plane was passing through a pocket of inclement weather, the pilot reportedly came over the loudspeaker to inform the passengers that the autopilot was no longer working and that the plane would need to make an emergency landing…