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Do you guys have a way of checking to see anything out of the ordinary in the airplane? Do you see smoke?

Do you see any scorching?

I'm showing some smoke on your number one engine. Verify you're showing smoke on the number one engine.

Verify you're showing smoke on the number one engine?

That's affirmative.

If you want to shut number one down, that's a pilot side.

All right, number one here we go.

Allegiant Air Flight 864, the Hagerstown, Maryland, had only been in the sky for 8 minutes on June 8, 2015, when its crew and 141 passengers smelled something burning.

Captain Jason Kinzer turned the plane around to make an emergency landing at Florida St.

Pete Clearwater International Airport from which the flight had departed, and once safely back on Earth he radioed the ground

crew to ask if there were any visible issues with the aircraft from their vantage point.

I'm showing some smoke on your number one engine, they reported.

So Kinser shut down the engines and explained to the cabin that they would be

evacuating.

That tower, uh, uh, ground Allegiant, 864, we're going to be evacuating.

864, hold off on your evacuation, please.

Who said to hold off?

Yes, please, hold off on your evacuation.

Yes, who is this?

Yeah, Legion 864, who's telling us not to evacuate?

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