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   From: support-the-nra@delta.com   
      
   Passengers on a Delta Air Lines flight from Atlanta to London   
   were turned back to their starting point twice after their pilot   
   heard loud noises on the aircraft.   
      
   Delta flight 284, scheduled to depart Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta   
   International Airport at 7:20 p.m. Tuesday took off for London   
   at 7:55 p.m. but landed just over an hour later back in Atlanta,   
   according to live flight tracking site FlightAware.   
      
   Customers were placed on another plane, which was also turned   
   around after its pilot heard a similar “abnormal noise,” Delta   
   spokesman Michael R. Thomas said in a statement to the Daily   
   News.   
      
   The unlucky passengers boarded two different aircrafts to try to   
   fly to London.   
      
   It was unclear if the pilot was the same on both flights, but   
   Thomas said that flights are typically recrewed because of duty   
   time limitations.   
      
   Thomas said in both cases, the flight crew “elected to return to   
   Atlanta out of an abundance of caution.”   
      
   The flights landed without incident in Atlanta, where customers   
   were provided with overnight accommodations.   
      
   Passenger Alex Brown told Channel 2 he thought he heard a loud   
   bang during the second flight, the Atlanta Journal Constitution   
   reported.   
      
   "It was like someone dropping a lead ball on the floor," he   
   said. "And (a Delta official) came back on and said we're going   
   to turn around. Everything is OK with the airplane but ... we're   
   going to turn around."   
      
   Delta flight 284 was scheduled to take off for a third time   
   Wednesday afternoon.   
      
   “The safety of Delta’s customers and crew is always our top   
   priority and we apologize to our customers for the   
   inconvenience,” Delta said in its statement.   
      
   http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/abnormal-noise-delta-   
   flight-london-turns-plane-back-article-1.3735391   
      
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