{"id":370583,"date":"2026-08-13T18:46:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T18:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/370583\/"},"modified":"2026-08-13T18:46:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T18:46:10","slug":"smoky-odor-forces-delta-flight-to-florida-to-return-to-atlanta-airport-airline-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/370583\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Smoky odor&#8221; forces Delta flight to Florida to return to Atlanta airport, airline says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Delta flight from Atlanta to Florida had to turn around after a smoky odor was reported onboard the plane, the airline said.<\/p>\n<p>Delta flight 1334 was scheduled to leave Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport around 7 a.m. and land at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport shortly before 9 a.m. on Thursday. The plane returned to the Atlanta airport shortly after it departed after a Delta spokesperson said someone reported smelling what could have been smoke.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The flight crew followed established procedures, and the aircraft landed normally without incident,&#8221; a Delta spokesperson told CBS News. &#8220;Nothing is more important than the safety of our customers and crew, and we apologize to our customers for the delay in their travels.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Officials did not say anything about a potential cause for the odor.<\/p>\n<p>According to data from FlightAware, the Delta flight was able to take off at 10:27 a.m. and is expected to land in Florida shortly before noon.\u00a0<\/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 flight from Atlanta to Florida had to turn around after a smoky odor was reported onboard&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":370584,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[7849,21527,249,251,250,86391],"class_list":["post-370583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-lauderdale","tag-atlanta","tag-delta-air-lines","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","tag-fort-lauderdale-news","tag-hartsfield-jackson-atlanta-international-airport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370583","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=370583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370583\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/370584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}