Diverted Delta passengers arrive home
More than 260 Delta passengers whose flight from Spain was delayed by more than seven hours -- first by being diverted to South Carolina because of storms, then after their plane clipped a light post while taxiing -- were back in Atlanta Tuesday night.
A second plane sent to retrieve them left Greenville-Spartanburg International Airport shortly after 9 p.m., according to Delta spokesman Eric Torbenson. The flight landed at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport a little past 10 p.m.
Delta Flight 115 from Barcelona, due into Atlanta at 2:05 p.m., had landed at the South Carolina airport about 3:45 p.m. and was taxiing when the Airbus A330 aircraft hit the pole, sustaining minor damage to its right wing, Torbenson said.
No one was injured in the incident.
A Boeing 777 was dispatched to bring 269 of the 298 passengers back to Atlanta, and the remaining passengers were being accommodated through other flights, Delta said.
