The Michigan women’s basketball team was safe late Saturday night and early Sunday morning after their charter plane was forced to make an emergency landing in Evansville, Indiana, after it lost pressure while flying through a storm.
Michigan was returning to Ann Arbor from San Antonio, after a 78-75 loss in overtime to Baylor in the NCAA Tournament Sweet 16 on Saturday afternoon. The plane departed Texas at 8:15 p.m. Central time for the roughly two-and-a-half hour flight.
As the plane flew through a storm, it made an aggressive descent, pressure was lost and the compartments containing oxygen masks opened and fell, according to Sarah VanMetre, who handles athletic department communications for Michigan women’s basketball.