Within the last 30 minutes, a Delta Air Lines Airbus A350 operating a flight between Atlanta and Santiago has declared an emergency.
Information is limited surrounding the incident at hand.
Below is what we know on this so far…
Delta Air Lines Flight DL147 – Atlanta to Santiago…
Delta Air Lines flight DL147, which declared the emergency, is a routine scheduled flight between Atlanta and Santiago.
Furthermore, the aircraft involved in the incident is N513DZ.
As per data from Planespotters.net, N513DZ is a 7.2 year old Airbus A350-900 that was delivered to the airline back in February 2019.
Of the A350-900 variant, Delta Air Lines has 40 of them in their fleet.
Moreover, of the 40, 38 are in active service and two are parked, offering an average age of 5.6 years.
Delta Air Lines flight DL147, which declared the emergency, departed Atlanta at 2238 local time on March 30 and headed down to Santiago.
Everything was normal throughout most of the flight until the aircraft ended up in Chilean airspace.
From there, the crew declared the emergency via the 7700 squawk code and opted to divert to Antofagasta Airport, where it landed safely without further incident at 0742 local time this morning.
Reason for the Emergency Unknown…
At this time, the reason for the emergency onboard Delta Air Lines flight DL147 Atlanta-Santiago is unknown.
What we do know is that the reason is severe enough to force a diversion to Antofagasta Airport.
As soon as we have more information pertinent to the incident at hand, then we will update you accordingly.
This is the second incident involving a Delta flight in South America in two days.
Yesterday, one of the airline’s Airbus A330-300 suffered an uncontained engine failure in Sao Paulo, resulting in an emergency landing back to the Brazilian airport.
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