{"id":91945,"date":"2014-06-16T21:15:48","date_gmt":"2014-06-16T17:15:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=91945"},"modified":"2014-06-16T21:15:48","modified_gmt":"2014-06-16T17:15:48","slug":"plane-forced-to-abort-landing-after-air-traffic-controller-told-pilot-he-couldnt-touch-down-then-admitted-it-was-a-joke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=91945","title":{"rendered":"Plane forced to abort landing after air traffic controller told pilot he couldn&#8217;t touch down &#8211; then admitted it was a JOKE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Delta-plane.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-91943\" alt=\"Delta plane\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Delta-plane.jpg\" width=\"634\" height=\"348\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Delta-plane.jpg 634w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Delta-plane-300x164.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Delta-plane-500x274.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 634px) 100vw, 634px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>An air traffic controller who allegedly joked to a pilot that he couldn&#8217;t land is being investigated after the plane was forced to circle a busy airport for an hour and a half.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As Delta Flight 360 came in to land at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, the controller reportedly joked that the plane couldn&#8217;t land.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>However, according to local news organisation <a href=\"http:\/\/www.11alive.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">11Alive Atlanta<\/a>, the pilot had already changed course, ascending back to 40,000ft after aborting the landing.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The plane was then forced to circle the airport for an hour and a half while the situation on the ground was clarified and the plane could land safely.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>An FAA spokesperson told 11Alive that there was never any danger for the pilot and passengers.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson said: &#8216;The FAA is investigating air traffic communications with Delta 630, a Boeing 777 aircraft on approach to Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/\">\u00a0\u0531\u0576\u056f\u0561\u056d<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; An air traffic controller who allegedly joked to a pilot that he couldn&#8217;t&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":91943,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[224,143,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-usa","category-world","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=91945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91945\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/91943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=91945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=91945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=91945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}