Delta Boeing’s Wheel Pops Off, Rolls Away While Taxiing in Georgia: FAA

The Federal Aviation Administration has said it will investigate after a Boeing 757 being used by Delta Air Lines lost its front wheel as it readied to take off from an airport in Atlanta, Georgia on Saturday, with the tire rolling across the tarmac and down a hill.

Set to fly from Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport to Bogotá, Colombia, Delta Air Lines Flight 982 was moments from takeoff when another one of its tires abruptly detached. In air traffic control audio obtained by YouTube channel VASAviation, another Delta pilot in the taxi queue can be heard warning Flight 982 about the problem.

“One of your nose tires just came off,” he says. “It just rolled off the runway behind you.” Shortly after, a Southwest pilot in the queue jumps in to demand if air traffic control is going to route them onto a different runway “’cause this looks like it could be quite a while.”

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