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Emergency Landing in S.C.


Pictured: Delta Connection (Comair) Canadair CL-600-2C10 Regional Jet CRJ-701ER over Atlanta. This one is purely a guess on my part since the info is sketchy (so far) and no registration # yet. But this jet is both Comair and Delta and CRJ, and south, so we’re probably not too far off.
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Contact photographer Agustin Anaya

What: Delta ComAir CRJ en route from New York to Charleston
Where: Myrtle Beach
When: Jan 29
Who: 17 passengers
Why: While en route, the plane developed smoke in the cockpit and made an emergency landing in Myrtle Beach, about 100 miles north of Charleston.

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