\n A Florida-bound Delta flight on Saturday returned to Atlanta and evacuated passengers on slides after reports of smoke in the cockpit.\n <\/p>\n
\n \u201cDelta 2204, change of plans. We now have smoke in the back, and we need to deplane immediately,\u201d according to air traffic control audio captured by ATC.com.\n <\/p>\n
\n \u201cThe flight crew followed procedures to return to Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport after reports of fumes in the flight deck,\u201d Delta Air Lines said in a statement.\n <\/p>\n
\n \u201cA slide evacuation occurred on a taxiway \u2026 Safety is paramount at Delta, and we apologize to our customers for their experience.\u201d\n <\/p>\n
\n Flight 2204 from Atlanta to Orlando was carrying 199 passengers and six crew members, according to Delta. Passengers and crew on the Boeing 757 evacuated via slides on the taxiway and returned to the terminal on a bus. The flight departed at 7:23 a.m<\/a>., according to flight tracking site FlightAware.\n <\/p>\n \n This is a developing story and will be updated.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Florida-bound Delta flight on Saturday returned to Atlanta and evacuated passengers on slides after reports of smoke…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":587449,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,61,60],"class_list":["post-587448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=587448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587448\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/587449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=587448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=587448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=587448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}