Southwest 737 MAX jet makes emergency landing in Florida

Southwest planes on the tarmac.
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Shortly after taking off from Orlando International Airport on Tuesday afternoon, a Southwest Airlines Boeing 737 MAX 8 jet turned around and made an emergency landing as the pilots reported an issue with one of the engines, the airline reported.

Southwest said the incident was not connected to a computer system that is being investigated for the role it may have played in the fatal crashes of two other 737 Max 8 planes, a Lion Air jet that crashed in October and an Ethiopian Airlines plane that went down earlier this month. Because of those crashes, the Federal Aviation Administration grounded all Boeing MAX planes, although the airlines have been able to shuttle their jets to storage areas.

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Catherine Garcia, The Week US

Catherine Garcia is night editor for TheWeek.com. Her writing and reporting has appeared in Entertainment Weekly and EW.com, The New York Times, The Book of Jezebel, and other publications. A Southern California native, Catherine is a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.