Delta Jet Rolls Off Taxiway at Atlanta Airport
Two maintenance workers for Delta Airlines got a surprise plane ride early this morning when the Boeing 737-700 on which they were working veered off a taxiway and down an embankment at Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport.
There were no passengers on board the plane and no one was injured, a spokeswoman for the Federal Aviation Administration said. The two Delta maintenance workers were conducting routine testing on the aircraft’s engines around 5 a.m. when the brakes malfunctioned, causing the plane to move, an airline spokesman said. “They were testing the aircraft’s engine run-up when they encountered some sort of problem with the plane’s braking system,” Delta spokesman Eric Torbenson told the Associated Press. The plane reportedly veered off Taxiway E on the east side of the airport and landed in an embankment. Torbenson told the AP the jet sustained “significant damage.” The runway adjacent to Taxiway E had to be closed to allow the plane to be moved.* The Federal Aviation Administration was reporting no flight delays out of Atlanta because*of the accident. |
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