ANN ARBOR, Mich. — A charter plane carrying the University of Michigan women’s basketball team was forced to make an emergency landing Saturday night in Indiana.
The Lady Wolverines were returning to Ann Arbor from San Antonio after their 78-75 overtime loss to the Baylor Lady Bears in the Sweet 16 when the Boeing 737-400 lost cabin pressure and oxygen masks fell from overhead, The Detroit News reported.
“Just went through the worst flying experience,” assistant coach Toyelle Wilson said on social media. “We are flying back to Michigan and hit a storm — lost pressurization — the oxygen masks dropped from the compartments. Told because we dropped at a certain feet and had to use them. We have just emergency landed in Evansville, Indiana. Please pray for us.”
Just want everyone to know, we are on the ground SAFE. Waiting for the next steps. @umichwbball 🙏🏾 pic.twitter.com/7XSvm0ZSue
— Toyelle Wilson (@CoachTMWilson) March 28, 2021
The plane flew threw a storm and as it made an aggressive descent, it lost cabin pressure causing the masks to deploy, The Detroit News reported. No one was injured, WDIV reported.
The team spent several hours at the airport in Evansville before boarding another flight to Michigan, where they safely landed early Sunday morning, The Detroit News reported.
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