Delta Air Lines has apologized to passengers on one of its flights for the anxiety and stress they experienced when the plane they were on landed with the cabin scraping the runway at Charlotte Douglas International Airport (CLT) in North Carolina.
Images taken at the airfield yesterday morning show the main landing gear of the Boeing 717 plane on the ground.
No injuries were reported in the incident. On the plane, 96 clients were traveling, two pilots and three flight attendants.
“Nothing is more important than the safety of our customers and our people,” the airline said in statements to CNN. “Although this is a rare event, Delta’s flight team is trained to safely handle multiple scenarios and Flight 1092 landed safely with no injuries reported. We apologize to the passengers for this experience,” the company said.
The flight took off from Atlanta, Georgia, at about 7:25 a.m.
“As the CLT approached, the pilots received an ‘unsafe landing gear’ indication. The crew initiated a missed approach procedure to further investigate the indication,” a Delta post on his website explains.
Initially, the pilots flew through the air traffic control tower in Charlotte so controllers could visually inspect the plane. The examination revealed that the front landing gear doors were open, but the gear itself was not.
The aircraft landed at around 8:58 am with the malfunction.
The runway had to be closed for most of the rest of the day until around 7 pm Delta announced that the plane had been removed from runway 18R/36L.
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