Plane carrying Kansas basketball team makes safe emergency landing at Mineta airport

File photo of Mineta airport in San Jose. A plane operated by iAero - formerly known as Swift Air - made an emergency landing at the airport Sunday night. File photo of Mineta airport in San Jose. A plane operated by iAero - formerly known as Swift Air - made an emergency landing at the airport Sunday night. Photo: Mineta San Jose Airport Photo: Mineta San Jose Airport Image 1 of / 1 Caption Close Plane carrying Kansas basketball team makes safe emergency landing at Mineta airport 1 / 1 Back to Gallery

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The iAero/Swift Air Boeing 737 that made a safe emergency landing Sunday night was carrying the University of Kansas Jayhawks basketball team back to Lawrence, Kansas from the Bay Area, according to the team's Twitter account.

The team's tweet Sunday night reads, "Upon our return flight home from San Jose, CA, roughly 20 minutes into the flight, one of the engines failed. The pilot immediately contacted the San Jose Airport where we returned and made a safe landing. We are grateful to the pilots and the entire flight crew of Swift Air. We will stay the night in San Jose and return to Lawrence once the plans have been finalized."

The fifth-ranked Kansas team won 72-56 Sunday at Stanford.

The plane's crew had reported having engine trouble after leaving Mineta San Jose International Airport Sunday evening, and made an emergency landing at about 5:30 p.m. with no further problems reported, an airport spokesman said.

The San Jose Fire Department, which has its Station 20 at the airport, mobilized several crews ahead of the landing, but did not have to go into action once the plane landed safely.

IAero is a charter airliner service, and on its website says its customers include presidential candidates, professional sports teams, college sports teams, Fortune 500 companies, international delegations and group tours.

Officials from iAero had not returned a request for comment early Sunday night.

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