Blown landing gear wheel on Delta Airlines plane.
Flight DL 127 of the American company Delta Airlines, departing from the Adolfo Suárez Madrid-Barajas airport and arriving at the John Fitzgerald Kennedy (JFK) in New York, had to return to the Madrid airfield shortly after taking off.
The pilot has detected a failure in one of the two engines and has requested permission from the control tower, as confirmed by airport sources.
The aircraft has landed on an auxiliary runway, so air traffic has not been affected by this incident, in which there have been no injuries.
The Boeing 767 left the Barajas T-1 terminal at 10.51 am - six minutes late - and its arrival time at JFK was scheduled for 1.30 pm, New York local time, after about seven hours and 45 minutes of flight. . The captain noticed a few minutes after taking off that one of the aircraft's two engines (with capacity for 226 passengers) had a problem, so he contacted the controllers in Madrid. He asked permission to return. At 11.10 the local alert was activated. This procedure mobilizes the emergency services (firefighters, health workers, Civil Guard, ...) who stand on the sides of the runway ready to act, especially in the event of a fire or an accident.
The plane entered via an auxiliary runway, which was not being used at the time, and landed without significant incidents or injuries, as confirmed by sources from the Civil Guard.
When towed, one of the wheels of an undercarriage blew out, possibly due to excess weight due to the enormous amount of fuel required to cover the more than 5,700 kilometers that separate the two cities.
The passengers have been transferred to the terminal and the flight has been canceled, waiting for the aircraft to be repaired, according to airport sources.
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