Delta Jet Rolls Off Runway at Atlanta Airport After Brake Failure

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A Delta jet sustained “significant damage” when it rolled off an Atlanta runway Tuesday morning. Fortunately, though, the plane was carrying no passengers when its brakes failed and it veered off the pavement at Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport. The plane tipped and came to rest on its right wing in the incident.

The Boeing 737 jet was carrying just two technicians who were testing the plane’s engines when they “experienced a problem with the braking system,” Delta spokesman Eric Torbenson told the Associated Press. The plane began to roll off the taxiway and over an embankment, coming to rest precariously in a ditch shortly after 5 a.m. The technicians suffered no injuries.

Police and fire personnel were summoned to the airport to determine how to move the aircraft, according to WUSA. The most major fallout from the incident, though, was simply the shocking scene for onlookers. Hartsfield-Jackson, the nation’s busiest airport in terms of annual passengers, experienced no delays as a result.

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