Two killed, third person injured in reported tire explosion incident at Delta facility in Georgia

Delta said the incident involved wheel components that were being disassembled for maintenance and not attached to an aircraft.

ATLANTA — Two people were killed, and a third person was seriously injured in an incident Tuesday morning at Delta’s TechOps facility at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, the company said.

A union group that has campaigned to organize employees at Delta, the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM), said it had received reports the incident was a tire exploding during some kind of operational work.

The Clayton County Medical Examiner’s Office later identified the victims of the incident as:

58-year-old Mirko

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