LAS VEGAS (AP) — Federal investigators say an electrical system malfunctioned, the autopilot quit and some radio communications were disrupted aboard a Frontier Airlines plane shortly before the pilots made a fiery but safe emergency landing in Las Vegas earlier this month.
No one among the 190 passengers and seven crew members was injured Oct. 5 on Flight 1326 from San Diego, according to a preliminary report released Monday by the National Transportation Safety Board.
Federal investigators say crew members detected fumes of burning rubber, a chemical or light smoke, the cockpit crew donned oxygen masks and declared an emergency about 19 minutes before the plane landed. Display screens, radio and transponders stopped functioning while the pilot and copilot conducted emergency procedures, the NTSB said…