The last few days weren’t very successful for Northwest Airlines. The company endured two emergency flight landings–one on Sunday and the second on Monday. Luckily, there were no injuries.

The reason for the early landing was technically related. The Sunday flight from Tampa to Detroit had to make a landing in Dayton, Ohio because a computer controlling one of the engines malfunctioned. As GADLING reports:

The flight originated in Tampa and was bound for Detroit. The crew decided to land when one of the computers connected to an engine failed. The pilot landed at the nearest airport, which happened to be Dayton, as a precaution.

The air show at Dayton International Airport was stopped for about a half-hour while the plane landed on the runway during the festivities.

Then, two days later, a Northwest flight from Minneapolis to Chicago had to make an emergency landing in Madison, Wisconsin, when a gauge failure caused the pilot to think there had been a drop in cabin pressure. According to msnbc.com, “None of the 115 passengers or six crew members aboard the DC-9 were injured.”

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