200 passengers forced to evacuate Delta plane on emergency slides due to engine issues
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’On takeoff, something went wrong and [an] engine caught fire,’ one passenger told CNN. A Delta flight with more than 200 passengers leaving Atlanta was forced to abort takeoff because of an engine issue and deploy emergency slides. Video of the incident showed passengers running through the snow on the tarmac fleeing the grounded plane.
Four passengers reported “minor” injuries, according to Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, three of whom were treated on scene. The National Transportation Safety Board is monitoring the event but has not initiated an official investigation so far.
The Federal Aviation Administration will investigate the incident, which took place on a Boeing 737-300. Nearly 50 percent of flights originating at the airport today have been cancelled, as a ground stop was in effect for much of Friday morning. As The Independent has reported, thousands of flights across the U.S. have been cancelled across the Southern U.S. amid a deadly winter storm.
