CHEEKTOWAGA, N.Y. — A cockpit issue forced a plane flying from New York City to Anchorage to make an emergency landing on Saturday evening at Buffalo Niagara International Airport.
The 4:45 p.m. Delta flight left John F. Kennedy International Airport before having to make the stop in Western New York, according to a Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority spokesperson.
The plane landed safely in Cheektowaga around 6 p.m. Police and fire vehicles also showed up to assist.
A 2 On Your Side photographer reported that the plane was still at an airport gate around 9 p.m.
A new flight from Buffalo was scheduled to leave Sunday morning at 10 a.m. bound for Anchorage. It left around at 11 a.m.
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