Delta passengers were forced to evacuated via slides at Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport on Monday after smoke was observed in the plane.
On February 24, 2025, a Delta Airlines Boeing 717, which departed Atlanta for Columbia, South Carolina, at around 8:30 a.m., returned back after smoke filled the cabin mid-flight.
Delta Flight 876 was en route from Atlanta to Columbia, South Carolina, on Monday morning when “haze inside the aircraft was observed,” a Delta spokesperson said. The FAA said “the crew reported possible smoke in the flightdeck.”
The plane safely made an emergency landing at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, and all 94 passengers, two pilots, and three flight attendants were swiftly evacuated using emergency slides.
The Boeing 717 twin-engine airliner produced by Boeing Commercial Airplanes was developed for the 100-seat market and originally marketed by McDonnell Douglas in the early 1990s as the MD-95 until the company merged with Boeing in August 1997.
