According to Delta, 94 passengers, two pilots and three flight attendants were on board Delta Flight 876 bound for Columbia, South Carolina from Atlanta.
A Delta Air Lines flight to Columbia, South Carolina, was forced to return to Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport on Monday morning after a "haze" was observed inside the plane, according to officials.
A Delta flight was forced to make an emergency landing Monday when the cabin filled with smoke. The incident occurred shortly after the plane departed from Atlanta en route to Columbia, South Carolina.
The pilot contacted the Atlanta control tower and declared an emergency. The Boeing 717 with 99 people on board then made an emergency landing at Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport. Once the plane came to a stop on the runway, emergency crews arrived as passengers were evacuated.
Delta Air Lines has faced a series of unsettling incidents recently, including smoke or haze in the cabin on two flights and a separate crash that injured more than 20 people.
Delta passengers were forced to evacuated via slides at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport on Monday after haze or smoke was observed in the plane, according to the airline and the Federal Aviation Administration.
An emergency was declared and slides were deployed after the aircraft landed back at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport.
A plane headed for South Carolina had to turn around this week because of smoke inside the cabin. The airplane, operating as Delta Flight 876, took off from Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport at 8:48 a.
A Delta Air Lines flight returned to Atlanta shortly after takeoff when the crew reported "possible smoke" in the aircraft, according to the FAA.
Delta flight returns to Atlanta after crew reports smoke in cabin, all 94 passengers safely evacuated via emergency slides with no injuries reported.