A Delta Airlines flight made an emergency landing back at Hartsfield Jackson Atlanta International Airport on Wednesday when one of its engines started pouring smoke after takeoff.
The International Business Times reported that Delta Flight 30, carrying 274 passengers and 14 crew members to London, had taken off from Atlanta at 6 p.m. when the crew reported a potential engine malfunction and the plane was forced to return to the airport.
Airport officials in Twitter posts noted that smoke was reported coming from the engine.
Atlanta Fire Department spokesman Sgt. Cortez Stafford told WXIA-TV that fire crews responded and hosed down the engine before the plane was towed from the runway back to the concourse with passengers still aboard.
"The flight landed without incident and airport response vehicles met the aircraft upon arrival," Delta, which is based in Atlanta, said in a statement, per WXIA-TV. "The airplane was towed to the gate, where customers deplaned through the jetway and will be accommodated on a different aircraft."
The incident followed an accident Tuesday when Southwest Airlines passenger Jennifer Riordan died of blunt impact trauma to the head, neck, and torso after the engine on Southwest Flight 1380 exploded in midair, the Huffington Post reported.
The flight from New York City to Dallas was 32,000 feet in the air 20 minutes after it left LaGuardia Airport when the engine blew, sending debris crashing into the window near where Riordan was sitting the website stated.
She was wearing a seatbelt but was partially sucked out of the plane before passengers and flight attendants pulled her back in.
The plane made an emergency landing in Philadelphia, according to the HuffPost.
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