Michigan women’s team makes emergency landing in Indiana

<p>ANN ARBOR, Mich. &mdash; The University of Michigan women’s basketball team has safely returned to Ann Arbor after their flight was forced to make an emergency landing in Indiana late Saturday.</p>
<p>“We were flying through a storm and lost pressure on our plane,” team spokesperson Sarah VanMetre said in a statement. “The oxygen masks came down and we made an emergency landing in Evansville.”</p>
<p>No one was injured, she said.</p>
<p>The Wolverines were returning to Ann Arbor from San Antonio after they lost to Baylor 78-75 in overtime in an NCAA Tournament Sweet 16 matchup Saturday afternoon.</p>
<p>“Just went through the worst flying experience,” Michigan assistant coach Toyelle Wilson wrote on Twitter. “We are flying back to MI &amp; hit a storm-lost pressurization- the oxygen masks dropped from the compartments. Told bc we dropped at a certain feet &amp; had to use them.”</p>
<p>Wilson posted a <a href="https://twitter.com/CoachTMWilson/status/1376017909793878017">photograph </a> on Twitter of coach Kim Barnes Arico, her staff and team in the plane, a Boeing 737-400, about 15 minutes after it had landed in Evansville. </p>
<p>The team spent ordered pizza and eventually was able to board a flight that left the gate at 3:47 a.m. Central time, and was in the air at 3:54 a.m., VanMetre said.</p>
<p>The Wolverines landed at an airport in Ypsilanti at 5:54 a.m. Eastern time Sunday.</p>