{"id":251229,"date":"2026-04-29T16:14:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T16:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/251229\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T16:14:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T16:14:00","slug":"passenger-taken-off-delta-flight-from-miami-to-atlanta-after-refusing-to-end-phone-call-officials-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/251229\/","title":{"rendered":"Passenger taken off Delta flight from Miami to Atlanta after refusing to end phone call, officials say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Delta Air Lines flight from Miami to Atlanta experienced an unexpected delay after officials said a passenger refused to get off the phone before takeoff.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for the airline said the incident occurred on Monday aboard Delta Flight 1323, which was scheduled to depart from Miami International Airport for Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport that afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>According to the spokesperson, crew members repeatedly tried to get a passenger to hang up while the plane was taxiing out.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of ending the call, the spokesperson said that the customer &#8220;became disruptive,&#8221; causing the aircraft to head back to the gate, where they were removed.<\/p>\n<p>The flight took off about an hour after it was scheduled to depart.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The safety of our customers and crew comes before all else, and Delta has zero tolerance for disruptive behavior,&#8221; the Delta spokesperson said. &#8220;We apologize to our customers for this experience and delay in their travels.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Delta Air Lines flight from Miami to Atlanta experienced an unexpected delay after officials said a passenger&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":251230,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[7849,21527,86391,123,125,1063,124],"class_list":["post-251229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-atlanta","tag-delta-air-lines","tag-hartsfield-jackson-atlanta-international-airport","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-international-airport","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251229","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=251229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251229\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/251230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}