Valujet Plane Makes Emergency Landing

A ValuJet plane returned to Orlando International Airport for an emergency landing Saturday after the pilot reported a strong “electrical” smell, airport officials said. No one was injured and no smoke or fire was ever found.

Flight 116 bound for Atlanta returned to the airport shortly after the 4:30 p.m. takeoff and the 32 passengers and five crew got off without any problem.

The pilot had reported a strong “electrical smell,” but an inspection of the DC-9 on the ground turned up no smoke or fire, said airport spokeswoman Carolyn Fennell.

The incident came a day after weeklong federal hearings into the cause of the May crash of ValuJet Flight 592, which plunged into the Everglades after the pilot reported smoke in the aircraft. That crash, which killed all 110 people on board, was blamed on improperly boxed oxygen-generating canisters.