A commercial jetliner suffered a loss of one of its two engines shortly after taking off from La Guardia Airport on Wednesday morning and was forced to make an emergency landing at Kennedy International Airport, officials said.
American Airlines Flight 309, an MD-80, bound for Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport, landed at Kennedy around 8:35 a.m., after losing a trail of metal parts, evidently from its No. 2 engine, the Federal Aviation Administration said. Some of the metal parts were reported to have fallen onto a rooftop of a commercial building in Queens.
There were 88 passengers and five crew members on board, said Andrea Huguely, a spokeswoman for the airline. No one was injured.
