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Delta flight from Atlanta makes emergency landing after cabin fills with smoke
FILE – Boeing 757-200. (Delta)
ALBUQERQUE, N.M. – A Delta Air Traces flight taking off from Atlanta was pressured to make an emergency touchdown in New Mexico after hitting hassle within the air.
The flight, which was heading to Los Angeles from Atlanta’s Hartfield-Jackson Worldwide Airport, made an abrupt cease in Albuquerque, New Mexico after the airplane’s cabin started filling up with smoke halfway by way of the flight.
Movies posted on Twitter captured the scary moments when the smoke got here into the cabin whereas an alarm blared.
Fortunately, the airplane landed safely and nobody was harm.
Journalist Mark Johnson, who was on the airplane through the emergency state of affairs, mentioned that the pilots had been pressured to make an emergency touchdown after an engine shut down.
After touchdown, Johnson shared video of the passengers clapping for the pilots to thank them for getting them on the bottom safely.
The Federal Aviation Authority is investigating the emergency touchdown.
Passengers had been placed on one other airplane to proceed their journey, Delta Air Traces mentioned.