DENVER (AP) -- A coffee maker on a Frontier Airlines flight is being blamed for producing an odor bad enough to prompt an unscheduled landing in Washington state.
Frontier Flight 846 left Seattle on Monday and was en route to Denver, until a crew member smelled something resembling smoke in the plane's rear cabin.
The pilot of the Airbus 319 landed a short time later at the Yakima Air Terminal, about 110 miles southeast of Seattle. Fire crews determined there was no fire on the plane, but it was taken out of service as a precaution.
Frontier spokesman Joe Hodas said the smell was traced to a malfunctioning coffee maker.
The 136 passengers waited five hours or so for another plane to take them to Denver, where Frontier is based.
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