An Air Canada flight was evacuated using emergency slides Sunday after worries of an electrical fire forced the aircraft to return to Denver, according to the Federal Aviation Administration.

The flight, an Airbus A220 headed to Toronto Pearson International Airport in Canada, returned to Denver International Airport shortly after 8:15 a.m. Sunday, according to a statement from the FAA.

Air Canada 1038 left its gate at DIA at roughly 7:40 a.m. Sunday, according to flight tracking software FlightAware . It landed back at the airport 37 minutes later.

The flight returned to Denver after the crew reported an “acrid smell” in the galley area, said Peter Fitzpatrick, Air Canada’s director of media relations.

The plane’s 117 passengers and five crew members used the emergency slides to le

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