OAKLAND, Calif.—A Southwest Airlines flight from Oakland to Denver returned shortly after takeoff when a wing slat warning light made the pilot decide it was safer to turn around.
Oakland International Airport spokeswoman Joanne Holloway said the Tuesday morning flight landed without incident at about 7:30 a.m., and the 103 passengers were put on another flight about 2 hours later.
Holloway says the airport did not classify the event as an emergency landing, but a lesser yellow warning.
Southwest spokesman Chris Mainz says the wing slat is out of the pilot’s field of view, so the pilot decided to return to Oakland after the warning light.
Mainz says the plane was a Boeing 737-700 series, a different model than the jetliner that had a fuselage tear over Arizona last week.
