January 22, 2000
Web posted at: 2:09 p.m. EST (1909 GMT)

DALLAS (CNN) -- An American Airlines Newark-to-Los Angeles flight that landed in Lincoln, Nebraska, after smoke filled its cabin remained in Nebraska as engineers prepared to fix its engine on Saturday.

No one was injured in Friday night's emergency landing.

Flight 159 left Newark shortly after 3 p.m. Friday carrying 120 passengers and a crew of seven, said American Airlines spokesman Tim Kincaid. A warning light indicating low engine oil in the right engine and smoke in the cabin led the pilot to make the emergency landing at 7:15 p.m. (8:15 p.m. EST). There was no indication of a fire, officials said.

A second plane sent from company headquarters in Dallas-Fort Worth flew the last leg of the trip, from Lincoln to LAX, the Los Angeles airport, where passengers arrived at 2 a.m. (5 a.m. EST). They were more than seven hours late, Kincaid said.

One passenger complained that the cabin had been in turmoil before the emergency landing: passengers' eyes were burning and some were screaming, he said. Once on the ground in Lincoln, passengers were given no food or water during the five-hour stopover, he added.

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