Obama's Jet Is Diverted After Glitch

An airplane carrying Barack Obama and his campaign entourage from Chicago to Charlotte, N.C., made a precautionary landing in St. Louis after an emergency slide inflated inside the plane's tail cone, causing it to pinch some control cables, officials said.

The plane, a McDonnell Douglas MD-80 that had been used by the Clinton campaign, was chartered by the Obama campaign from Milwaukee-based Midwest Airlines because the larger Boeing 757 the campaign normally uses was down for maintenance.

The airplane remained grounded after it landed safely, and the senator and other passengers ...