Manila, April 10 -- The Philippine Airlines (PAL) is looking for flights for the affected passengers of its Los Angeles-bound flight that made an emergency landing at the Haneda Airport in Japan due to smoke inside a cabin.

"PAL is now looking for flights so that the passengers could continue their journey to Los Angeles because their (troubled aircraft) could not continue with the flight," Transportation Secretary Vince Dizon said in a press conference on Thursday.

He was referring to flight PR102 that departed from Manila on April 9 en route to Los Angeles but diverted to Haneda Airport due to initial findings of smoke emitting from one of two air conditioning units.

Dizon thanked the Japanese Embassy and PAL for assisting the passen...