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Engine computer failure on Northwest flight forces safety precaution

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updated 12:45 p.m. ET July 21, 2008

DAYTON, Ohio - Visitors to the Dayton Air Show Sunday got a bit more than they may have wanted.

The show was interrupted when a Northwest Airlines plane made an emergency landing. The airline says the Boeing 757 was en route from Tampa, Florida, to Detroit when a computer for one of its engines failed. That failure prompted the crew to shut down one of the plane's engines and land as a precaution.

Nobody was injured. Six crew members and 182 passengers were on board.

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The air show at Dayton International Airport was halted while the plane landed but resumed less than an hour later.

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