Cedar Rapids-bound plane diverted due to smoke

A regional airliner bound for Cedar Rapids from O'Hare International Airport was diverted to a suburban Chicago airport Monday morning after smoke began filling the cockpit.

Passengers aboard American Eagle Airlines flight 2936, operated by SkyWest Airlines, were evacuated quickly after the plane made an emergency landing at DuPage County Airport. No injuries were reported.

'The flight landed safely and passengers deplaned normally,” said Marissa Snow of SkyWest corporate communications. 'Mechanics will inspect the aircraft.”

Snow said passengers were bussed back to O'Hare and have been rebooked on later flights to Cedar Rapids.

Passengers and crew members began noticing smoke in the cabin of the regional jet shortly after the plane left O'Hare. A passenger, Nick Ludwig, a graduate of Coe College in Cedar Rapids, made a video of the smoke in the cabin and posted it on Twitter.

Efforts to reach Ludwig for comment were not immediately successful.