Cabin depressurization forces Bolivian jetliner to make emergency landing; no one injured

Bolivian airliner makes safe emergency landing

ASUNCION, Paraguay — Officials in Paraguay say a Bolivian airliner carrying 120 passengers from Miami has made a safe emergency landing after the cabin depressurized.

Alberto Cabrera, an executive for the airline Aerosur in Paraguay’s capital of Asuncion, says the pilot received a depressurization alert during the flight Friday and landed the plane in Rio Branco in northwestern Brazil.

Caferino Farias, director of civil aviation in Paraguay, says none of the passengers or crew suffered injuries.

Cabrera says Aerosur sent another plane that flew half of the passengers on to Asuncion and the remaining passengers arrived on a later flight.