A Boeing 757 jet operated by Delta Airlines lost its nose wheel just as it was preparing to take off from Atlanta over the weekend with 184 passengers on board, according to a Federal Aviation Administration incident report published Monday, in another incident involving a Boeing plane as the aircraft maker reels from the fallout of the Alaska Airlines door plug incident from earlier this month.
FILE PHOTO: A Delta Airlines Boeing 757 was forced to abandon take off on Saturday after its nose ... [+]
According to the FAA’s report, Delta Airlines Flight 982 was lining up and waiting for take-off when its “nose wheel came off and rolled down the hill.”
The incident occurred Saturday at Atlanta’s Hartsfield–Jackson International Airport on a plane that was scheduled to fly to Bogota, Columbia.
All 184 passengers and six crew members on board the plane were unharmed and were “deplaned and…bused to the terminal,” according to the FAA.
Citing a Delta spokesperson, the Washington Post reported that the plane’s passengers were transferred to a “replacement aircraft” and the affected plane returned to service the next day.
Forbes has reached out to both Boeing and Delta for comment.