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.
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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.