A Frontier Airlines jet with a faulty cargo door indictor light landed safely at Los Angeles International Airport after being diverted from its Orange County-to-Denver route.
Flight 263, an Airbus A318 carrying 119 passengers and crew members, touched down at 12:50 p.m. PST Tuesday, and departed at 2:30 p.m., after maintenance crews checked out the plane and did not find any problem with the cargo door, said Frontier spokesman Joe Hodas. The passengers remained aboard.
"It was not a big deal," Hodas said.
Hodas said the cargo door light started flashing intermittently after the jet took off from John Wayne Airport in Santa Ana, California, at about 10:50 a.m. He said all the other gauges and air pressure were normal.
"The pilot at that point decided to get it checked out," Hodas said.
The pilot headed to the Los Angeles airport where Frontier has more maintenance crews, he said. The landing was carried live on cable news television outlets.
John Wayne Airport is located near the Orange County coast southeast of Los Angeles.
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