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More than 3,000 flights have been canceled and thousands more delayed because of a winter storm in the southern United States, according to airlines and the website FlightAware..
Delta Air Lines said in a statement that its crews hope to return to a normal flight schedule today, Saturday.
The company noted that “as a result of worse than expected winter weather conditions at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport in Georgia, all five runways were closed for more than two hours Friday morning.”“.
Delta canceled about 1,100 flights across its network on Friday due to “freezing rain that caused flight diversions.”“.
A Delta Air Lines plane also had to cancel its takeoff due to an engine problem at Atlanta Airport.
More than 200 passengers and crew of the Boeing 757-300 that was going to Minneapolis (Flight 2668) were evacuated through emergency slides, according to a statement from the airline carried by the American press, and the investigation is still ongoing.
Source: Agence France-Presse