{"id":269357,"date":"2026-08-21T07:42:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T07:42:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/269357\/"},"modified":"2026-08-21T07:42:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T07:42:15","slug":"delta-flight-returns-to-pittsburgh-after-crew-reports-fumes-in-the-aircraft-following-departure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/269357\/","title":{"rendered":"Delta flight returns to Pittsburgh after crew reports fumes in the aircraft following departure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">A Delta flight returned to Pittsburgh International Airport shortly after departure Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Delta flight 1504 was bound for Atlanta when the crew reported fumes inside the Boeing 737-900 aircraft, a Delta spokesperson told Channel 11. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Crew members followed safety protocol and declared an emergency with air traffic control.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">The flight landed normally and taxied to its gate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Delta is now working to get customers to their destinations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">\u201cSafety comes before all else, and we apologize to our customers for the delay to their travels,\u201d the spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Download the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/mobile-apps\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FREE WPXI News app<\/a> for breaking news alerts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Follow Channel 11 News on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/wpxi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WPXI\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>. | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch WPXI NOW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>TOP STORIES FROM CHANNEL 11 NEWS <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph body-copyright\">\u00a92026 Cox Media Group<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Delta flight returned to Pittsburgh International Airport shortly after departure Thursday. Delta flight 1504 was bound for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":269358,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[113558,113564,113561,113562,113560,59979,113563,6753,113557,17913,73,75,74,113559,27745,113554,113556,113555,6664],"class_list":["post-269357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-aicraft-emergency","tag-aicrcraft","tag-delta-flight","tag-delta-flight-diverted","tag-detla","tag-diversion","tag-diverted","tag-emergency","tag-fumes","tag-pit","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-pittsburhg-international-airport","tag-plane","tag-plane-emergency","tag-plane-fumes","tag-plane-smoke","tag-smoke"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269357\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/269358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}