Plane carrying Ratt, Dokken makes emergency landing in Moline

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    In this photo provided by Chuck Brennan, Dave Ungar, the tour manager for the rock band Dokken, left, and Craig Bradford, tour manager for Ratt, walk away from a charter jet that had to make an emergency landing, Saturday, Aug. 17, 2013, in Moline, Ill. The plane, which took off from Moline, returned to the airport early Saturday afternoon after smoke appeared in the cabin at 7,000 feet. No injuries were reported, and the bands took ground transportation to their concert in a suburb of Chicago.

    A private jet carrying rock bands Ratt and Dokken had to make an emergency landing this afternoon after smoke was detected in the cabin.

    Chuck Brennan, a friend of the bands who chartered the flight, told The Associated Press that the plane took off from the Quad-City International Airport but pilots had to turn it around when smoke appeared in the front of the plane at about 7,000 feet.

    Brennan said the pilots donned oxygen masks and landed the Challenger 601 with no incident. There were no injuries reported by the pilot or the 13 passengers.

    "The cabin didn't fill with smoke," said Brennan, the owner of short-term lender Dollar Loan Center.

    On Ratt's Facebook page, under a photo of the plane surrounded by Quad-City International Airport fire trucks was the comment, "Ratt and Dokken just made an emergency landing after a fire in the cockpit. We are ok!"

    Read more http://qctimes.com/news/local/plane...cle_1f8c2992-d1c5-53c2-9195-6d8813284c77.html
     

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