Plane conducts emergency landing at Hector International Airport after smoke discovered in cabin

Photo by: WDAY Radio File (Canva)
Photo by: WDAY Radio File (Canva)

(Fargo, ND) -- No injuries are reported after a flight that had just taken off from Fargo's Hector International Airport yesterday morning reported smoke in the cabin and requested permission to turn back and land.  

Airport officials say the control tower got word of the emergency around 8 a.m. The Fedex Cessna Caravan 208 reportedly landed without incident.  

Technicians later determined that the smoke had come from leaking engine fluid contacting hot metal that posed no danger to aircraft, which was then clear to fly.