Watch: Delta Airlines flight makes emergency landing in US after cockpit fills with smoke

The flight had returned safely to Atlanta international airport and all passengers were evacuated, the FAA officials said.

Delta Airlines cabin fills with smoke mid-flight from Atlanta to South Carolina, forced to return for emergency landing. All 94 people on board evacuated via slides.

Just a week ago, another Delta aircraft flipped upside down in Toronto pic.twitter.com/rcVLrWcmqR

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Delta Air Lines in a statement said that a Boeing 717 flight departed from Atlanta on Monday morning with 94 passengers onboard “when a haze inside the aircraft was observed”.

The statement added that the pilot declared an emergency as soon as the crew informed about smoke in order to get priority handling from air traffic controllers.

An AP report stated that as soon as the plane landed, slides were deployed by the airport first responders in order for the public to exit immediately. Delta spokesperson Samantha Moore Facteau told AP that “EMTs attended to two customers.”

“Nothing is more important than the safety of our customers and people and we apologize to our customers for the experience,” Delta Air Lines statement added.

New footage shows passengers evacuate a smoke-filled Delta Airlines plane in Atlanta, reporting that oxygen masks failed to deploy and that pilots remained unaware of the smoke for several minutes pic.twitter.com/5KBsaPy8iJ

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Videos on social media showed smoke filled in the cabin of the Delta Air Lines flight and passengers covering their mouth and noses to protect themselves.

This comes two days after a Delta Air Lines flight bound for Australia returned to Los Angeles International Airport “after smoke was detected in the galley,” reported NBC News.

In another major incident, a Delta Air Lines flight crash landed and flipped upside down while landing in Toronto last week, injuring 21 people.