Plane makes emergency landing at SFO

MILLBRAE, Calif. (KGO) -- An American Airlines jet was towed from the terminal at SFO after it turned around and made an emergency landing a little over an hour after it took off when part of the plane's interior buckled.

Maintenance workers are trying to figure out what went wrong.

Passengers noticed a short time into their flight that something was wrong with the Boeing 757 aircraft. American Airlines said the problem was not the plane's pressurization system, and oxygen masks never dropped.

Flight 2293 was carrying 184 passengers and a crew of six--two pilots and four flight attendants.

Part of the plane's cabin wall came apart. Airline officials blamed the problem on air ducts inside the plane. Passengers alerted flight attendants of what they saw and the captain decided to return to SFO over the Sierra.

San Francisco firefighters stood by along the runway as a precaution while the jet landed. No one was injured.

Another plane is enroute to fly the passengers to Dallas, but they will have to wait until 7 a.m. Tuesday to board that flight.