Tech glitch makes Spanair plane make emergency landing

There were no injuries in the Sunday incident, and the airline said the problem did not constitute an emergency. Spanair said the pilot detected a possible fault in a backup generator not required for flight and decided to land as a precaution, according to the Spanish news agency EFE.

The plane was an MD-82 – like the plane that crashed Wednesday – and had 141 people on board. It left Barcelona at 8:10 am on Sunday and was diverted to Malaga just over an hour later. The flight was later cancelled and the passengers put up at a hotel in the southern resort city, according to Spanish aviation authority AENA.