Authorities say a jet that departed from Atlanta’s airport reported smoke coming from an engine and it returned to the airport where firefighters immediately doused the engine.
Andrew Gobiel, an airport spokesman, tells The Associated Press he couldn’t immediately confirm the number of passengers or airline but he says no one was injured.
News reports cited Atlanta Fire spokesman Sgt. Cortez Stafford as saying it was a Delta Air Lines jet, but Delta did not immediately respond to messages for comment.
Tweets by the Atlanta airport say the smoke was reported about 6 p.m. from an engine of the plane and it immediately returned to the airport.
“Units hosed down the aircraft’s smoking engine. The aircraft is being towed” with passengers aboard back to the concourse, a tweet says.
(AP)
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This sounds like sabotage. Having been working in this field including the design of a test-rig for jet engines,
I find these two incidents very strange. I can ensure you the inspection of the engines is a very serious business.
There is however some investigations to be done among the staff having access to the engines in the workshop,
in the hangars where the aircraft spends the night as well on the tarmac at the airports. After all the fine job carried out by the techniciens, this should not happen. I’m personally convinced these two incidents are linked to an act of sabotage.