Airline Maintenance Incident Reported At BWI Airport

LANSDOWNE, Md. (WJZ) -- An airline maintenance incident was reported at BWI Thurgood Marshall Airport on Thursday.

According to a spokesman for Southwest Airlines, an aircraft departing BWI experienced a failure of a nose gear just after pushing back from the departure gate. There were no reports of injuries among the 126 passengers and five crew.

The passengers are being accommodated on another aircraft for their flight to Atlanta.

The aircraft will be inspected by Southwest's technical operations team.

There is no other impact to flights to and from BWI.