Overview
- Delta Flight DL104 to Atlanta, which took off Sunday night, suffered a left‑engine failure seconds after departure and landed back at Guarulhos.
- The Airbus A330‑300 carrying 288 people declared an emergency, leveled near 4,500 feet, and returned to the same runway within minutes.
- Engine fragments fell onto airport property and set a small patch of vegetation on fire, and airport crews paused operations to clear debris.
- Delta canceled the flight, called it a technical failure in the left engine, and rebooked passengers, with no injuries reported.
- Brazil’s accident agency CENIPA opened an investigation that will review debris and maintenance records, with early focus on a possible bird strike or foreign‑object ingestion into the Pratt & Whitney PW4168A, a type of uncontained engine failure that is rare but triggers full safety checks.