Missing engine cover prompts Delta flight's emergency landing
This past Sunday Delta's aircraft the Boeing 717, flight 762 heading from Atlanta to Chicago, made an emergency landing in Nashville due to a missing cover on the plane. The right engine cover, called the cowling, had come off. The pilot made an emergency landing announcement to the one hundred nine passengers aboard the aircraft. The flight made a quick landing in Nashville, TN with all passengers exiting the plane uninjured and safe.
Delta has contacted all passengers with an apology feeling horrible for what happened while they are still trying to investigate what happened and why it happened. The seek for answers to this unexpected landing is in action right now and hopefully they will figure out the cause for making an emergency landing at 28,000 ft. This story is scary only because when everyone goes onto a flight that is always a fear... having to make an emergency landing. But, so glad everyone is safe and was uninjured throughout the problem.
It is scary to think about how dangerous being in a plane really is. These people would have never expected having to be part of an emergency like that. This is similar to how the people on the plane during the 9/11 attack must have felt.
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