Overview
- Minutes after takeoff, pilots reported they could not communicate with the cabin crew and declared an emergency before returning to Eppley Airfield.
- Police, fire and ambulance units met the plane on the tarmac, and officers briefly boarded before the situation was deemed safe.
- SkyWest cited a problem with a flight crew mic and apologized, describing the diversion as taken out of an abundance of caution.
- Passengers, including ESPN reporter Brian Windhorst, recounted a lack of announcements that heightened confusion during the episode.
- The aircraft later departed for Los Angeles after a multi-hour delay with a new cabin crew, with flight tracking showing a nearly five-hour late takeoff and no security threat found.