Jet Makes Emergency Landing

Eleven people were injured Sunday when hydraulic problems forced an AirTran jet to make an emergency landing in Atlanta that collapsed the front landing gear as steering control was lost.

Correspondent Cheryl Henderson of CBS affiliate WGNX-TV in Atlanta reports that most of the injuries were described by authorities as minor.

A total of 105 people were aboard Flight 867 to Dallas-Fort Worth that returned to Hartsfield Atlanta International Airport on Sunday after 15 minutes aloft,

Kathleen Bergen of the Federal Aviation Administration said the Boeing 737 lost steering control after landing and the nose gear collapsed when it hit the runway's shoulder. The plane was cleared using slides.

Spokespeople at Southern Regional and South Fulton Medical Centers said 10 passengers were treated and released.

"We cut across runways, we cut across grass, and we ran over a bunch of those little blue lights and eventually impacted on the side of this hill," passenger Ken Ross said.

AirTran, formerly known as ValuJet changed its name more than a year after a crash in the Florida Everglades killed 110 people on May 11, 1996. Investigators said that crash was caused by a fire fed by illegally carried oxygen generators.