Tense moment plane carrying Grammy Award-winning singer Karol G makes emergency landing in Los Angeles after reports of SMOKE inside the cockpit

  • Karol G, real name Carolina Giraldo Navarro, is a Colombian singer who has released four albums since 2017 that have gone platinum
  • The 33-year-old was seen getting off the plane at Van Nuys Airport on Thursday evening after what was called a ‘mid-air emergency’
  • The singer flew in her private plane, which is decorated with the barbed wire heart tattoo she has on her arm

Video-captured nervous moments showed a plane carrying Grammy-award winning singer Karol G making an emergency landing at a Southern California airport after reports of smoke in the cockpit.

Karol G, real name Carolina Giraldo Navarro, is a Colombian singer who has released four albums since 2017 that have gone platinum.

The 33-year-old was seen getting off the plane at Van Nuys Airport on Thursday evening after what was called a “mid-air emergency.”

According to ABC7Passengers were seen hugging after arriving back on the ground.

The singer flew in her private plane, which is decorated with the barbed wire heart tattoo she has on her arm.

Nervous moments captured on video showed a plane carrying Grammy award-winning singer Karol G making an emergency landing at a Southern California airport after reports of smoke in the cockpit

The plane took off from Burbank Airport on Thursday with 16 passengers and crew on board.

No details are yet known about the flight, other than that it was “flying east.”

The pilot reported the smoke problem as the plane reached Cajon Pass, about 70 miles (110 kilometers) east.

The plane made a smooth landing at Van Nuys Airport, about 15 miles west of where they took off, around 9 p.m. local time.

The singer is currently in the middle of a Latin American tour with no stops in the US.

The singer flew in her private plane, which is decorated with the barbed wire heart tattoo she has on her arm

The plane took off from Burbank Airport on Thursday with 16 passengers and crew on board. No details are yet known about the flight, other than that it was ‘flying east’

Karol G, real name Carolina Giraldo Navarro, is a Colombian singer who has released four albums since 2017 that have gone platinum

She was supposed to perform in Guatemala on Friday evening. It is unclear whether the show will go on as planned.

It came just hours after smoke was reported in the cabin of an American Airlines flight that left New York’s LaGuardia Airport for Chicago on Thursday morning. USA today reported.

No injuries were reported and local fire and ambulance crews were able to get things under control.

Navarro has won five Latin Grammys and four Billboard Music Awards.

Her most recent album was the first-ever Spanish-language record to debut on the English-language Billboard 200 charts.