The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating a report of smoke in an airplane bathroom which led to an emergency landing in St. Louis, Missouri, and an evacuation on the runway Tuesday.
United Express flight 4423, operated by GoJet Airlines, had just taken off from St. Louis Lambert International Airport at 6:40 a.m., headed to Chicago, when “the crew reported a lavatory smoke warning,” GoJet spokesperson Elizabeth Dray said in a statement.
“We got smoke in the lav,” the pilot told the air traffic control tower moments after taking off, according to audio recorded by LiveATC.net. “We’re going to come back… we might need one of the fire trucks to follow behind us.”…