FDNY deploys 140+ personnel to JFK after Delta flight reported with flat tires on approach to landing

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A Delta Air Lines formation arriving astatine New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport connected Tuesday sparked a monolithic exigency effect from the New York City Fire Department (FDNY) aft archetypal reports of landing cogwheel trouble.

Delta Flight 1966, an Airbus A321neo traveling from San Juan, was carrying 170 passengers, 2 pilots and 4 formation attendants. 

At 4:45 p.m. section time, authorities received a telephone reporting an inbound craft with "two level beforehand tires," FDNY officials told Fox News Digital.

Delta Air Lines level   astatine  JFK airport

A Delta Air Lines formation landed safely aft concerns were reported astir the aircraft's landing cogwheel connected Tuesday. (WNYW)

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The study prompted an contiguous "normal basal by 2nd alarm" from the department, which deployed a monolithic unit of 46 units and 141 occurrence and EMS unit to hole for a imaginable emergency.

Delta told Fox News Digital determination was lone "some damage" to 1 tyre and clarified that the tyre ne'er blew, but alternatively suffered from tread wear. 

A commercialized  airplane approaches John F. Kennedy International Airport successful  New York City.

Delta Air Lines said the exigency effect was "far much precautionary than needed." (Nicolas Economou/NurPhoto via Getty Images, File)

The hose noted the concern ended up being "far much precautionary than needed."

After an appraisal by the attraction team, the craft was deemed suitable to continue, avoiding a taxiway tyre replacement.

A Delta Air Lines level   taxiing to the terminal astatine  Austin-Bergstrom International Airport.

Delta confirmed determination were 170 customers connected committee the aircraft, on with six unit members. (Aaron E. Martinez/The Austin American-Statesman via Getty Images, File)

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The formation was fixed clearance to taxi usually to the gross nether its ain power.

FDNY officials said the level safely reached the gross with nary injuries reported, and the country was declared nether power by 5:06 p.m.

Alexandra Koch is simply a Fox News Digital writer who covers breaking news, with a absorption connected high-impact events that signifier nationalist conversation.

She has covered large nationalist crises, including the L.A. wildfires, Potomac and Hudson River aviation disasters, Boulder panic attack, and Texas Hill Country floods.

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