Cockpit smoke sends United flight back to RDU

A United Airlines flight headed for Chicago returned to Raleigh-Durham International Airport shortly after takeoff Thursday morning when the pilots reported smoke in the cockpit.

No one was hurt, and Flight 3663 was able to land and taxi back to a United gate in Terminal 2, RDU spokeswoman Mindy Hamlin said.

Firefighters and maintenance personnel were inspecting the plane, a 66-passenger Canadair CRJ-700 twin-jet operated for United by GoJet.

The flight department RDU at 9:33 a.m., headed west and returned 14 minutes later, according to the air traffic site Flightaware.com.

This story was originally published May 28, 2015 at 10:09 AM with the headline "Cockpit smoke sends United flight back to RDU."