The aircraft — carrying 123 passengers and five crew members — made the emergency landing “as a precaution this afternoon to address a possible mechanical issue,” a United spokesperson told The Post.

An open door indicator light caused an United Airlines flight from Sarasota in Florida to make emergency landing at Tampa International Airport. According to flight-tracking site FlightAware, United Airlines flight 2434 left Sarasota-Bradenton International Airport for Chicago at 3:42 p.m. but was diverted to Tampa less than an hour later, landing at 4:35 p.m.

The aircraft — carrying 123 passengers and five crew members — made the emergency landing “as a precaution this afternoon to address a possible mechanical issue,” a United spokesperson told The Post.

The airline did not immediately specify if the issue in question was related to an open door light, but a Tampa International Airport spokesperson said its dispatchers received a call referencing exactly that when runway space was requested for the emergency landing.

NOTE: United Airlines is one of the two American companies that operates Boeing 737 Max 9 jetliners — like the one that lost its door plug in the air on Friday. But the aircraft that diverted to TPA was not a 737 MAX 9, like the Alaska Airlines plane that had a door blown out mid-flight. the aircraft was an Airbus A319.

What happened with Alaska Airlines?

The incident came less than a week after a Boeing 737 Max 9 operated by Alaska Airlines suffered a major malfunction when a door plug came off during a flight from Portland, Oregon, to Honolulu, Hawaii. The door plug is a part that seals the gap between the door and the fuselage.

The door plug fell off at an altitude of 16,000 feet, creating a large hole in the side of the plane and exposing the passengers to a sudden drop in air pressure. A teenage boy had his shirt ripped off his body and almost sucked off by the force of the air, and other passengers lost their belongings, such as cell phones and headrests, some of which landed in people’s yards.