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Passengers on a United Airlines flight including Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg were evacuated from a United Airlines jet via emergency chutes on Wednesday. The pilot reportedly deployed the plane's slides after reporting an engine issue to the tower.
Ginsburg, 78, is the high court's oldest justice and was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in 2009. She underwent surgery and chemotherapy for the cancer and was hospitalized on two other occasions last year but is maintaining an active travel schedule that is taking her across the country cheap one way plane tickets at least twice this summer.
United Flight 586 was scheduled to fly from Washington's Dulles International Airport to San Francisco. The plane, a Boeing 757, was carrying 179 passengers and six crew members, United spokesman Mike Trevino told msnbc.com.
Jodi Gersh, the director of social media for Gannett, was onboard the flight, and was posting updates via her Twitter account . "Passengers in front of me saw smoke out window and alerted attendants," she wrote at about 1 p.m. ET. "No serious injuries as far as I can tell. It happened so fast and the attendants were amazing. I'm still shaking as I type this ...
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