A power failure at the Brownsville airport prompted an airplane to make an overnight emergency landing in Harlingen.
Brownsville/South Padre Island International Airport Executive Director Larry Brown spoke to Action 4 News about the incident.
Brown said that power went down at the airport and surrounding area around 11 p.m. Tuesday.
The generator for the airport did not automatically kick in.
Brown said power for one of the runways was not available prompting airport officials to divert an incoming plane to the Valley International Airport in Harlingen.
Some 11 passengers were taken off the plane and waited in Harlingen for about an hour until the power restored on the runway in Brownsville.
The passengers were then loaded back on the plane and flow to Brownsville where the plane landed safely.
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