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Another Southwest Airlines Flight Makes Emergency Landing Following Bird Strike

NASHVILLE (CBS) -- A day after a woman on a Southwest Airlines plane died following an in-flight engine explosion, another flight had to make an emergency landing.

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Southwest says a bird strike caused the emergency in Nashville, Tennessee on Wednesday morning.

Flight 577 had just taken off from Nashville for Phoenix when the incident occurred.

The jet quickly returned to the airport.

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No one was injured.

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