An emergency slide fell off a Delta Air Lines jetliner shortly after takeoff Friday from New York, and pilots who felt a vibration within the airplane circled again to land safely at JFK Airport.
Delta mentioned that after takeoff the pilots bought an alert concerning the emergency slide on the airplane’s proper facet and heard an uncommon sound coming from that space of the Boeing 767 jet, which is listed as having been manufactured in 1990. The incident is the newest in a sequence of issues involving Boeing-manufactured planes.
The Federal Aviation Administration mentioned the crew reported a vibration.
Pilots declared an emergency so the flight could possibly be be routed rapidly again to the airport, and the airplane landed and taxied to a gate beneath its personal energy, in keeping with the airline.
There have been 176 passengers, two pilots and 5 flight attendants on board the flight, which was scheduled to fly to Los Angeles. Delta mentioned it put passengers on one other airplane to California.
Delta mentioned the airplane was faraway from service for analysis and it was cooperating with investigators and supporting efforts to search out the slide.
“As nothing is more important than the safety of our customers and people, Delta flight crews enacted their extensive training and followed procedures to return to JFK,” the airline mentioned in a press release.
