A JetBlue Liner passenger plane made an emergency landing at a Long Beach, California airport on Thursday after a problem occurred with one of its engines shortly after taking off.

JetBlue Liner flight 1416 bound to Austin, Texas landed back at a California airport at around 9:30 a.m. when the cabin was filled with smoke, forcing passengers to make an emergency exit through the plane's slides.

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A few of the 142 passengers were taken to a local hospital for evaluation after some complained about medical issues after the plane landed.

According to Cassie Perez-Harmison, the spokesperson for the airport, a crew announced the emergency landing due to an "overheat warning" for one of its two engines.

Passengers claimed hearing a popping noise followed by an unusual vibration and a foul smell when they were about 10 minutes in the air.

"Smoke came billowing out of the air vents and filled up the cabin in about 10 to 15 seconds," Dean Delbaugh, who was supposed to visit his in-laws in Austin, told the Associated Press.

Fifty-seven-year-old Laura Andreasen, who was travelling to Orlando with her husband, pregnant daughter and disabled son for a Disney cruise, expressed her relief upon landing after feeling unsure about whether or not they would survive.

Meanwhile, Twilight actor Jackson Rathbone, who was aboard the plane during the incident, Tweeted about how the cabin was filled with smoke after the right engine exploded.

"The stewardesses yelled for us to get out and as far away from the airplane as possible. I grabbed my son and jumped down the inflated ramp, my wife following. We left all our personal effects onboard," he wrote.

During the incident, oxygen masks were manually deployed by the cabin crew members as they were only designed to automatically drop upon depletion of pressure inside the cabin.

A representative from JetBlue declared that an investigation into what caused the engine to malfunction is underway.

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