NWA flight makes emergency landing in Fargo

By TIM HARLOW, Star Tribune

Last update: May 8, 2008 - 1:19 PM

A Northwest Airlines flight from Minneapolis-St. Paul to Regina, Sask., made an emergency landing in Fargo, N.D., late Wednesday after a fire was reported in a bathroom, said Paul Skrbec, a Northwest spokesman.

None of the 72 passengers and four crew members was injured when flight 2040 landed without incident at Hector Field around 10:40 p.m., Skrbec said.

Emergency crews met the aircraft, an Embraer 175 operated by Compass Airlines, a subsidiary of Northwest.

Passengers were put up in hotels in the Fargo area and re-booked on flights today. They were expected to arrive at their destination around 1 p.m. Twin Cities time.

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