All 184 passengers on board were unharmed and later deplaned and taken to the terminal from where they boarded a replacement aircraft.
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A Boeing 757 jet operated by Delta Airlines lost its nose wheel just as it was preparing to take off from Atlanta over the weekend with 184 passengers on board, according to a Federal Aviation Administration incident report, in another incident involving a Boeing plane as the aircraft maker reels from the fallout of the Alaska Airlines door plug incident earlier this month.Key Facts
According to the FAA’s report, Delta Airlines Flight 982 was lining up for take-off when its “nose wheel came off and rolled down the hill.”
The incident occurred Saturday at Atlanta’s Hartsfield–Jackson International Airport on a plane scheduled to fly to Bogota, Columbia.
All 184 passengers and six crew members on board the plane were unharmed and were “deplaned and…bused to the terminal,” according to the FAA.
