ST. LOUIS, Mo. — An odor on an American Airlines plane prompted an emergency landing about 15 minutes after takeoff from St. Louis Lambert International Airport Saturday morning. A Waterloo, Illinois, couple on board said they feared they would not make it home to their children.
Tessa and Mark Springer were flying from St. Louis to Pennsylvania for work. They said the trouble started with a noise.
“We heard just this really horrible noise coming from the back of the plane. It was like… real loud buzzing, kind of grinding sound,” Mark Springer said…