A Delta Airlines jet bound for the Netherlands lost an engine pylon panel during takeoff Sunday and returned to Utah, according to reports.
The Airbus A330neo, carrying 260 passengers and 13 crew members, departed Salt Lake City for Amsterdam and arrived at the Montana-North Dakota border before safely returning to Salt Lake after one of its engine pylon panels fell off during takeoff. He returned to the city, the Associated Press reported. ) report. The report said it was not immediately clear how the pilots learned of the missing parts, but Delta Air Lines said the Airbus twin-aisle jet had “reported mechanical issues.” It is said that he admitted that.
Delta Air Lines reportedly apologized to passengers for delays caused by the incident.
The plane had been flying for just over an hour when it reached a cruising altitude of 35,000 feet (10,668 meters) and aborted the flight to Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport. according to simple flight. The flight crew reportedly did not warn passengers about the incident as the plane turned around and headed back to Salt Lake City International Airport (SLC).
The wide-body plane reportedly returned to SLC nearly three hours after takeoff and has not flown since. A similar Airbus aircraft from Delta Air Lines replaced the affected jet and completed the flight to Amsterdam, according to Simple Flying. The replacement plane was scheduled to carry passengers from Schiphol Airport to New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport, replacing the also affected plane. (Related: Panel falls off on United Airlines Boeing 737 plane during flight)
The accident was at least the third time in recent months that a U.S. plane has lost a panel, according to the Associated Press.
On Friday, a United Airlines Boeing 737 from San Francisco landed at its destination in Oregon, where it was reportedly discovered that a panel was missing. On another United Airlines plane, this time a Boeing 777-200 bound for Japan, a tire came off shortly after takeoff from San Francisco on March 7, the same week, and the Boeing plane suffered an engine fire, causing another crash. Engine failure occurred.
Another United Airlines Boeing plane reportedly landed in Denver in late February, short of its intended destination of Boston, with one of its wings apparently frayed and damaged.
Alaska Airlines’ Boeing 737 Max-9 infamously lost its plug door mid-air in early January.
Meanwhile, Delta Air Lines’ international flights to Detroit returned to Schiphol Airport in mid-February. Overhead bins containing rotten fish spread maggots to passengers on the flight.
A whistleblower was found dead in an apparent suicide, while various plane crashes appeared to have caused confusion in regulators and disrupted board meetings.
