Engine Trouble Turns Back Spanish Flight

An Airbus A320 experienced engine trouble shortly after taking off Wednesday from the Canary Islands and was forced to immediately turn around and make an emergency landing, Spain's national airport authority AENA said.

The Spanish Iberworld airliner was headed from Las Palmas on the island of Gran Canaria to Oslo, Norway, AENA spokeswoman Karen Martel said from the island.

No one was hurt and the plane was in the air about 10 minutes, she told The Associated Press.

Martel denied news reports that one of the plane's engines had caught fire, saying only it had undisclosed trouble.

She did not know how many people were on board but news reports reported 180.

The passengers were taken off the plane and the company planned to put them on a different one bound for Oslo at midday, Martel said.

CBS News correspondent Richard Roth reports the emergency landing comes about a week and a half after Air France flight 447 crashed into the Atlantic Ocean, well into a flight from Brazil.

That doomed flight was an Airbus A330, a larger, long-haul model passenger jet to the one that was turned around from the Spanish islands on Wednesday.

The Airbus A320 is a medium-range workhorse of the aviation industry, with hundreds of the jets in the fleets of many major airlines around the world. It was an A320 that the pilots of US Airways flight 1549 managed to glide safely into the Hudson River after their engines failed due to a bird strike in January.

Search crews were still hard at work Wednesday morning in the Atlantic looking for any sign of the flight data recorder from the Air France flight. Some wreckage and 28 bodies have been recovered from the deep waters, but without the "black box" it will be difficult for investigators to piece together what downed the plane and its 228 passengers and crew.