JetBlue plane makes emergency landing in Bermuda

A JetBlue passenger jet on a flight from Aruba to Boston made a precautionary emergency landing in Bermuda on Tuesday after a cockpit light indicated possible smoke in a rear cargo bin.

JetBlue flight 774 from Aruba to Boston made an unexpected emergency landing in Bermuda as a precaution due to the "maintenance issue," says JetBlue spokesperson Alison Croyle. "An indication light in the cockpit came on suggestive of possible smoke in the aft cargo bin," Croyle said. Croyle denied an earlier report by Bermuda's Royal Gazette newspaper, which quoted a local Bermuda fire service officer as saying the pilot of the plane had told the control tower smoke was detected in the cockpit coming from the flight controls. Croyle says, "There was not smoke in the cockpit at any time." She added that after the plane landed safely, a maintenance inspection cleared the aircraft and it later continued on its flight to Boston.