A tire blowout on a Delta Air Lines jet during maintenance at the Atlanta airport on Tuesday killed two employees and seriously injured a third, authorities in Georgia said.
The two deaths occurred early in the morning in a hangar at the Hartsfield-Jackson international airport as the workers changed the tire, Delta said in a statement.
Atlanta police department Maj Kelley Collier told reporters that emergency crews responded to a call about a tire explosion at the airport’s technical operations maintenance facility at about 5am.
The identities of the dead workers were not immediately disclosed. The third Delta employee was taken to hospital with “major injuries”, but the worker’s condition on Tuesday afternoon was not known.
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