Billy Carter and Family Made Ill in Emergency Landing
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GALLUP, N.M. — A corporate jet carrying Billy Carter, brother of former President Jimmy Carter, and members of his family was forced to make an emergency landing here after losing cabin pressure, Billy Carter said today.
He said at a news conference that one of the pilots of the Gulfstream One turbo-prop told everyone in the aircraft that “we’re losing pressure and I am taking the plane down fast.”
“Everyone got terribly sick,” Carter said.
Once the airplane landed, his 17-year-old daughter Mandy was taken by ambulance to a hospital. Carter said her illness stemmed from the problems with the cabin pressure. She was released this morning after being kept overnight for observation.
The airplane was en route from Las Vegas to Albuquerque, N.M.
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