A Canadair Regional jet, with 74 people on board, was forced to make an emergency landing at the Aspen Colorado Airport after smoke entered the pilot’s cabin. The jet, which was being operated by SkyWest Airlines, was able to make a safe landing Sunday afternoon. Reports show that there were no injuries in the landing.

A spokeswoman for the St, George, Utah-based airline said that the emergency occurred just shortly after 1pm – just after the aircraft left Aspen en route to Denver. The Aspen airport aviation director, Jim Elwood, went on to tell the media that it was simply a faulty air conditioner unit that caused the smoke in the cabin.

The good news for the people that were on board the flight, unlike other flights that make emergency landings, was that they were able to continue their flight to Denver later that afternoon after the Canadair Regional Jet 700 was clear for takeoff. However, some airline experts want to know why other airlines do not get their planes back up in the air as quickly as SkyWest Airlines did? Although they admit that there are some situations where the airline is unable to get that same plane back up in the air due to technical and safety problems, other times it seems that airlines are too quick to cancel flights.

One airline expert goes on to point out one case in which airlines seem too quick to cancel a flight was when a passenger said that they had seen a mouse on board the plane. After doing a search of the plane, no mouse was found, but the flight was canceled. I’ts events like this that give travelers the wrong idea of certain airlines.