Delta said that following takeoff the pilots obtained an notify about the emergency slide on the plane’s right aspect and read an unusual seem coming from that space of the Boeing 767 jet, which is detailed as getting been created in 1990. The incident is the most current in a collection of issues involving Boeing-produced planes.

The Federal Aviation Administration mentioned the crew documented a vibration.

Pilots declared an emergency so the flight could be be routed swiftly again to the airport, and the aircraft landed and taxied to a gate under its own power, in accordance to the airline.

There were 176 travellers, two pilots and 5 flight attendants on board the flight, which was scheduled to fly to Los Angeles. Delta said it set travellers on an additional airplane to California.

Delta reported the airplane was eradicated from provider for analysis and it was cooperating with investigators and supporting endeavours to discover the slide.

“As almost nothing is far more important than the safety of our consumers and people today, Delta flight crews enacted their comprehensive teaching and adopted strategies to return to JFK,” the airline claimed in a assertion.