After the Delta trip achieved a decline in the emergency in Atlanta in February, the maintenance crew found that it was hardly there or perhaps “no visible oil” in the right engine of the plane, the National Transport Safety Council said in a preliminary report issued on Wednesday.
The Delta Air Lines 876 flight was linked to South Carolina after it took off from Hartfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport on February 24. Federal Aviation Administration He said at that time.
According to the initial report of NTSB, both the flight attendants in the front and background of the smoke plane are noticed through the door and “exiting all openings” when taking off. They tried to alert the pilots, but they initially did not get a response.
The report said that the leading flight host, who said that smoke was so thick “to the point that he was unable to see the first row of seats,” the report said. This is when the pilots also reported the vision of smoke rising from the ground at the back of the cockpit and hearing the flight attendants they are calling.
The NTSB report said: “They wore oxygen masks and initially delayed in response to aviation flight attendants, as the captain focused on plane flying while the first officer announced an emergency with air traffic control,” the NTSB report said.
The report said that the trip eventually fell safely and nearly 100 passengers were evacuated.
When maintenance employees performed a plane examination after the accident, they found “there is no visual oil in a cup of vision of the right engine tank”, which indicated that the oil was almost empty or empty, according to the NTSB report. The report said that the Boeing 717-200 was equipped with Rolls-Royce engines.
It was not immediately clear whether the appropriate engine oil tank in that state was before taking off, and NTSB achieves continuous.
The first NTSB report was among a number of other reports on the ongoing investigations issued by the agency on Wednesday. It comes amid FAA’s growing fears after high -level accidents, including the main delays in Newark International Airport and The deadly atmosphere collision Between the Black Hawk helicopter and the American eagle flight over the Botomac River in January.
