UPDATE: A sick passenger was removed from a Sun Country Airlines plane after it made an unscheduled stop in Las Vegas at McCarran International Airport. The plane, which was chartered, was then allowed to continue its trip to Oklahoma City.
Our team charter made an unscheduled stop in Las Vegas to address a non-team medical issue. We expect to be back en route to OKC shortly.
— CSUB Athletics (@CSUBAthletics) March 16, 2016
ORIGINAL STORY:
A charter plane carrying Cal State Bakersfield's basketball team to Oklahoma City made an unscheduled stop in Las Vegas on Wednesday morning, according to various tweets.
Emergency landing in Las Vegas, everyone is ok but please pray for one of our members as they get the medical attention they need.
— Arthur Smith (@arthur_smith82) March 16, 2016
Charter carrying Cal State Bakersfield to OKC just made emergency landing in Vegas for medical reasons. Don't believe it's player or coach.
— Zach Ewing (@zewing) March 16, 2016
Have confirmed that affected individual is not player or coach. Will update if I can while respecting privacy.
— Zach Ewing (@zewing) March 16, 2016
Everyone on board is calm. Medical personnel headed back now. No word of how long delay will be.
— Zach Ewing (@zewing) March 16, 2016
Flight is commercial size, by the way. Carrying cheerleaders, pep band, school personnel, other students, media members as well as team.
— Zach Ewing (@zewing) March 16, 2016
NCAA has us traveling in style on our chartered plane! We are wheels up to OKC!#AllRunners ? pic.twitter.com/HxlaAJw7sD
— CSUB Men's Hoops (@CSUB_MBB) March 16, 2016
The team is on the way to face No. 2 seed Oklahoma in the first round of the NCAA basketball tournament. The plane landed around 8:19 a.m.
