Delta Flight 2284 arrives around Atlanta through Pittsburgh every time a find stories a "big boom"
A Delta official states that the particular brakes overheated, whilst an FAA official affirms your tire blew
None from the 44 voyagers in addition to 5 team people tend to be harm and also many usually are evacuated
Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport
Delta Air Lines Inc.
(CNN)Passengers were evacuated coming from a Delta planes once smoke a pipe began on its way with the wheel area, after it arrived from Atlanta's air-port Saturday afternoon, a new witnesses and firm public said.
Flight 2284 had merely reached Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport from Pittsburgh, around 4:14 p.m. when the episode occurred, stated Delta spokeswoman Leslie Parker.
Parker said this plane's brakes overheated, leading to smoke. According to Federal Aviation Administration spokeswoman Kathleen Bergen, on the list of plane's auto tires blew out.
"After (the plane) ended up there is your huge boom, and then just a distinct smoke," Kalel Dunst, who spotted the particular experience at a hotel room nearby, explained to CNN. "It not power on the runway, and the criticism acquired considerably bigger."
According that will Parker, probably none with the 44 persons and also five team associates on this phone were injured. All were correctly evacuated and also bussed to your terminal. She claimed many people departed this plane through slides, however Bergen mentioned some people needed a corner stairs.
The planes an MD 88 is going to be applied for involving provider along with evaluated, the particular Delta spokeswoman said.
CNN's Justin Lear contributed to the report.
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