A Delta Air Lines plane made an emergency landing in Atlanta because of the smoke (video)

The evening of 18 April at the international airport Hartsfield-Jackson made an emergency landing airliner Delta Air Lines.

Emergency situation arose a few minutes after takeoff: the pilots of the Airbus A333, EN route from Atlanta to London, noticed the smoke in the right engine.

Delta Air Lines has confirmed that the plane was forced to return to the airport where he was met by firefighters. «The plane landed successfully, nobody has suffered, — is spoken in the statement of the airline. — All passengers assigned to other flights. The safety of customers and crew has always been and remains our top priority, and we apologize for the incident».

Passengers Airbus A333 pretty panicked, because literally the day before, April 17, an emergency landing in Philadelphia due to engine problems made the plane Southwest Airlines. Then the woman was killed, several people were injured.

Fortunately, yesterday’s state of emergency ended well. «The plane almost immediately landed on the same runway, which took off, and firefighters put out the smoke from the engine», — said the press Secretary of the airport of Atlanta Andrew Gobeil.

In the Federal aviation administration (Federal Aviation Administration) announced that it was investigating the incident.

A small fire occurred 20-30 after take off on @Delta 30 from Atlanta to London…here is some of the smoke that came from that engine @FOX5Atlanta pic.twitter.com/HlEJrlyU65

— Aiun Nettles (@AiunFox5) April 18, 2018

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