(File Photo: Source for Photo: FILE – In this Dec. 2, 2020 file photo, an American Airlines Boeing 737 Max jet plane is parked at a maintenance facility in Tulsa, Okla. Paying passengers were scheduled to board a Boeing 737 Max in Miami on Tuesday, Dec. 29 for the first time since safety regulators allowed the plane to fly again after two deadly crashes. The American Airlines flight is scheduled to land at New York’s LaGuardia Airport with about 100 passengers aboard, according to an airline spokeswoman. (AP Photo/LM Otero, File)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Pittsburgh, PA) An American Airlines flight that was headed to Dallas, Texas yesterday morning was diverted back to Pittsburgh shortly after takeoff. One of the passengers on that plane stated that the pilot told the passengers: “This plane’s been in maintenance for the last 10 days. We thought it was okay, but we’re not able to accelerate, so we might have to return back to Pittsburgh.” The plane landed in Pittsburgh before 8:30 a.m. without any issues and it eventually took off again to Dallas just before 11 a.m. and landed there yesterday afternoon with no issues.