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Jet makes emergency landing after fire reports

Plane passengers may have had to rely on their travel insurance after an American Airlines flight made an emergency landing in Glasgow.

The aircraft, which was on its way from London Heathrow to Los Angeles, made the unscheduled stop after the pilot reported a fire, the BBC reports.

Some 207 passengers and crew were on board the Boeing 777-200 plane when it landed in Glasgow on the afternoon of March 3rd.

However, inspections carried out after the emergency landing found that the switch that had alerted the pilot was faulty and there was no fire in the hold of the plane.

All passengers had to disembark from the plane and an engineer was sent to Glasgow to examine the problem.

American Airlines claims to be the largest airline in the world, with more than 4,000 daily flights operated by its group of airlines every day.

The carrier serves 250 cities worldwide with a combined fleet of more than 1,000 aircraft.