A Delta Air Lines flight made an emergency landing on Tuesday after the plane’s cabin filled with smoke.
Delta flight 2846 was headed from Atlanta to Los Angeles when a smoky odor was observed in the cabin, an airline spokesperson tells PEOPLE. Crew members also noticed a performance issue with one of the aircraft’s two engines, which prompted the emergency landing.
Infootage posted on social media, seated passengers can be seen in thevisibly hazy cabinas an alarm goes off.
“Everything was normal and then suddenly there was smoke in the cabin,” Mason Weiner, one of the passengers who captured footage from the flight, toldNBC News.
The passenger noted that flight attendants helped keep everybody calm, told them that “it wasn’t a fire” and that they should “keep seated.”
Delta Flight 2846.TMX
Officials have not yet made it clear if the smoke and the engine issue were related.
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Journalist Matt Johnson, who was on the flight, said that after the safe landing, passengers made sure to show their appreciation to the flight crew.
“Our pilotsreceived a round of applausefrom stranded passengers,” he wrote on social media, adding in another message that theflight attendants were also applauded.
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After landing, Delta used another aircraft to continue the trip to Los Angeles.
“Delta teams worked safely and quickly to get our customers on their way that evening and we apologize for the delay in their travel plans,” the spokesperson added.
source: people.com
