American Airlines flight makes emergency landing due to malfunctioning electronic cigarette

An American Airlines (AA) flight on Thursday afternoon made an emergency landing in the U.S. city of Little Rock due to a malfunctioning electronic cigarette.

The Indianapolis-bound American Airlines flight 1129, which was carrying 137 passengers and five crew members, left the Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport at 12:47 p.m. local time (1847 GMT), but it was forced to land in Little Rock, the capital of the state of Arkansas, because a passenger's electronic cigarette malfunctioned, the airline said in a statement.

The flight landed safely around 1:50 p.m. local time (1950 GMT) and no injuries were reported, a spokesman for the Bill and Hillary Clinton National Airport/Adams Field said.

The airline sent a replacement aircraft later in the day to Little Rock to continue the trip to Indianapolis, the capital of the U.S. state of Indiana.

American Airlines is a major American airline headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas. It is also the world's largest airline when measured by fleet size, revenue, and scheduled passenger-kilometers flown, and the second largest by number of destinations served. Endi