He said he had nothing to do with the plane, and when the incident was brought up during the election campaign he dismissed it as "an anecdote".
"If the landing gear had collapsed directly on landing it would have been a much larger incident because the plane is clearly going much faster, " he said.
The incident happened as the plane was approaching Detroit Metropolitan Airport on Friday afternoon after travelling from Amsterdam.
Jeffrey told CNN that US Airways earlier Monday confirmed to him that the Tuesday incident occurred aboard the plane that crashed.
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Speaking about the January 7 fire in Boston, Hersman said the plane's flight data recorder showed the battery underwent an unexplained drop in voltage from 32 volts to 28 immediately before the incident, as the plane was being serviced on the tarmac.
There were 116 passengers and five crew members on board the plane, which landed in Portland without incident, according to the airline.
The plane landed about two hours later without incident, Boeing said.
Blue Islands said the plane was evacuated within 45 seconds and the incident had been well managed and controlled by the crew who ensured passengers were "safely and quickly escorted from the aircraft".
Ten passengers and two crew were unhurt in the incident involving Loganair's Twin Otter plane.
It comes after the latest incident where a laser was aimed at an Easyjet plane coming in to land in Edinburgh.
According to news reports, the MD-83 was involved in a minor safety incident in August 2006 among others when Alaska Airlines operated the plane.
That incident resulted in tough restrictions on liquids being carried on board a plane.
The deadliest incident for the DEA occurred August 27, 1994, when a plane carrying five special agents crashed in the Peruvian Andes during a reconnaissance mission, according to the DEA's Web site.
The defense argued that the incident was a tragic accident caused partly by the fact that the plane's altimeter was not working and the gondola cable that the plane hit was not on the map that he was given.
According to the Seattle Times, the fix also involves using a system of venting tubes that in case of an incident would channel any flammable vapours or liquids directly out of the plane, and continuous monitoring of the temperature and voltage of individual cells within the battery.
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The official, who declined to be identified because the military and the FAA are reviewing the incident, said the FAA's request for military involvement came after the plane passed the Minneapolis-St.
The official, who declined to be identified because both the military and the FAA are reviewing the entire incident, said that the FAA's request for military involvement came after the plane passed the Minneapolis airport.
CNN: Crew of wayward airliner cooperative, sober, police say
The pilot of a Cessna Citation plane preparing to land at Bob Hope Airport in Burbank suffered "vision impairment that lasted for hours" after the incident, according to a statement from the Office of the United States Attorney Central District of California.
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