{"id":227803,"date":"2026-04-11T18:11:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T18:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/227803\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T18:11:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T18:11:11","slug":"delta-flight-diverted-back-to-fort-lauderdale-airport-after-landing-gear-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/227803\/","title":{"rendered":"Delta flight diverted back to Fort Lauderdale airport after landing gear issue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0April 11, 2026 at 1:51 PM<\/p>\n<p>Plane circles, dumps fuel before safe landing at Fort Lauderdale airport <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.  \u2014 A Delta Airlines flight bound for Boston, Massachusets, was diverted back to Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport on Saturday after experiencing a mechanical issue with its landing gear, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Flight <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flightaware.com\/live\/flight\/DAL555\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.flightaware.com\/live\/flight\/DAL555\">DL555<\/a> landed without incident, and video obtained by Local 10 News captured the plane arriving back at FLL. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/espanol\/2026\/04\/11\/desvian-vuelo-de-delta-de-regreso-al-aeropuerto-de-fort-lauderdale-por-falla-en-el-tren-de-aterrizaje\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/espanol\/2026\/04\/11\/desvian-vuelo-de-delta-de-regreso-al-aeropuerto-de-fort-lauderdale-por-falla-en-el-tren-de-aterrizaje\/\">Leer en espa\u00f1ol<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cPlane is still circling and dumping fuel. Incident involved a mechanical issue with the aircraft\u2019s landing gear. No other information is available at this time,\u201d the Broward Sheriff\u2019s Office wrote in a statement to Local 10 News. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">According to FlightAware, the plane was in the air for 1 hour and 13 minutes before landing back at FLL.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flightaware.com\/live\/flight\/DAL555\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.flightaware.com\/live\/flight\/DAL555\">Flight tracking data<\/a> shows the aircraft was scheduled to depart at 7:05 a.m. for Boston but was delayed until 11:58 a.m. before taking off, when it experienced the mechanical issue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Airport officials have not said when the flight will be rescheduled.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Passengers are expected to remain on the secured side of the airport, as the flight is listed as delayed rather than canceled as of Saturday afternoon. <\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfe0 News From Your Neighborhood<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2026 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Ryan Mackey\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/https:\/\/author-service-images-sandbox-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/8725e99c-e445-48a0-bd.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Ryan Mackey <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Ryan Mackey is a Digital Journalist at WPLG. He was born on Long Island, New York, and has lived in Sunrise, Florida, since 1994.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0April 11, 2026 at 1:51 PM Plane circles, dumps fuel before safe landing at Fort Lauderdale airport FORT&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":227804,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":["post-227803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","tag-fort-lauderdale-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227803\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}