Delta Plane Plunges Nearly 30,000 Feet in Less Than 7 Minutes, Causing Oxygen Masks to Deploy

Photo: George Frey/Getty Passengers on a recent Delta flight that was on its way from Atlanta, Georgia to Fort Lauderdale, Florida endured seven minutes of terror as Flight 2353 quickly dropped nearly 30,000 feet in the air. “Air masks, the oxygen masks dropped from the top of the plane. Chaos sort of ensued amongst the passengers,” Harris Dewoskin, who was aboard the flight, told the outlet. He added that despite the crew’s attempts to keep people calm, many of his fellow passengers went into a panic.

Delta Plans to Bring 400 Grounded Pilots Back to Active Flying Status by Summer

Delta Air Lines plane.Photo: Nicolas Economou/NurPhoto via Getty Delta Air Linesis calling many of their pilots back to work. He explained that it is “well ahead of when we originally estimated we would be able to convert pilots back to full flying status,” adding that the feat “is possible because of the PSP [Payroll Support Program] aid and available training capacity starting in March and April.” Michael A. McCoy/Getty The 400 pilots scheduled to return to work are not new hires, theAssociated Pressadds, but are instead employees who avoided furloughs last year.

Delta Ramp Worker Arrested for Alleged Role in $300,000 Cash Heist at JFK Airport

Photo: Nicolas Economou/Getty Images A Delta employee has been arrested after roughly $300,000 went missing from JFK Airport in New York earlier this week. As the outlet reports, Thorpe was caught on surveillance camera “putting all the bags on the plane — except for one, which he did not scan and placed in a vehicle and drove off with, the complaint says.” RELATED VIDEO: Felicity Huffman Sentenced to 14 Days Behind Bars in College Admissions Scam

Delta Says It Didn't Demand 'Booksmart' 's 'Homosexual Content' Be Cut After Olivia Wilde Complains

A spokesperson for Delta airlines is denying reports that the airline asked for scenes to be cut out of Olivia Wilde’s acclaimed directorial debutBooksmartafter several customers complained.The issue was first brought up on Twitter when Wilde responded to a fan in shock after they said a lesbian kiss featuring one of the main characters was edited out of the airline cut of the film. While Wilde and the fan don’t mention Delta, several other users noted the same changes while watching the comedy on the airline.

Delta Shanghai-bound Flight Turns Around in Midair Due to New COVID Rules

Delta Air Lines plane.Photo: Nicolas Economou/NurPhoto via Getty ImagesNew COVID-related cleaning requirements at a Shanghai airport are what prompted a recent Shanghai-bound flight from Seattle to turn around mid-air – and a protest from the San Francisco-based Chinese consulate.The unexpected Delta Airlines flight turnaround left many Chinese citizens on board stranded with expired visas andCOVID-19test results, according to the state-runGlobal Times.Delta Airlines did not immediately get back to PEOPLE in a request for comment, although it said in a statement to theAssociated Presson Monday that Shanghai Pudong International Airport has activated new mandates that “require significantly extended ground time and are not operationally viable for Delta.