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Delta Flight Forced to Land After Weird Smell Fills Cabin

BAD AIR

The flight suddenly veered off course.

Delta Air Lines Airbus A220-100 aircraft as seen on final approach landing with landing gear down at New York JFK John F. Kennedy International Airport on 14 November 2019 in New York, US. The airplane has the registration N121DU, 2x PW jet engines. The renamed Airbus A220 airliner was Bombardier CS100, BD-500-1A10. Delta Air Lines DL Delta is the largest airline carrier in the world with a hub in New York-JFK. (Photo by Nicolas Economou/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
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A passenger plane bound for Seattle had to make an emergency landing in the Bay Area after a strange smell filled the cabin. Delta flight 1430 was en route to Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, Washington, from John Wayne Airport in Orange County, California, when it was forced to divert on Tuesday. The five-and-a-half-year-old Airbus A220-100 was over Yosemite National Park a little less than an hour into its journey when it veered west and touched down at Oakland San Francisco Bay Airport, according to FlightAware. In a statement to People, a Delta spokesperson said the flight had diverted “out of an abundance of caution after a reported odor from the flight crew.” In a statement of its own, the Federal Aviation Administration told the magazine, “The aircraft landed safely without incident, and customers deplaned normally,” saying it had done so “because of reported fumes in the cabin.” The Daily Beast has contacted Delta for more information.

Read it at People