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A Delta Airlines employee is on the mend after she was struck by a service truck at Atlanta’s airport over the weekend. The collision occurred around 6 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 10, as the ramp agent was guiding a flight into one of the gates at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, according to Atlanta police. That’s when the driver, who police said was admittedly distracted by his tablet, struck her on the tarmac. The woman’s family shared video of the incident online, showing the moment the truck hits her from behind. Officers responded to Concourse C and found the agent on the...

A complete power outage at the nation’s busiest airport, the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, grounded flights Sunday afternoon, threatening to cause a holiday travel nightmare for fliers across the country just over a week before Christmas. Airport officials said in a news release the power outage has forced the Federal Aviation Administration to suspend outgoing flights and implement a "ground stop" for incoming flights, which "means that flights headed to Atlanta are held on the ground at their departure airport." International flights will be diverted to land at other airports, U.S. Customs and Border Protection tweeted. Atlanta Airport tweeted that...

A retired truck driver flying through Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport (ATL) is warning American flyers their experience may not be secure, after he was able to pass a loaded handgun through a Transportation Security Administration checkpoint. Speaking to Britain’s Daily Mail, the flyer says while packing his gun was purely accidental, he feels the TSA should have caught it prior to departure. The incident happened on November 5, as 67-year-old Blake Alford was preparing to fly from ATL to Chicago Midway Airport (MDW). In his bag was a Ruger .38 pistol, loaded with a full magazine of seven hollow-point bullets....

In life…you have your good days and you have your bad days. However, there are certain professions where you should always be on your best behavior. Pilot of the plane is one of them. Why? Everything you say is recorded! Then someone posts it on the internet where it lives forever and ever! A Delta pilot was communicating with the Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson Airport when the jerkiness started. The pilot of flight 2422 did not take kindly to the idea of being on the wrong runway and yelled at the traffic controller for having a bad attitude.

(CBS 46 News) -- Officials at Hartsfield-Jackson airport found a body aboard a plane arriving from South Africa Friday morning. The body was found in the wheel well. Apparently the person was a stowaway. The body was frozen and completely chopped up. The plane is currently parked in the middle of the concourse.

No details yet...report just came over the TV

A "suspicious" device was found in the bathroom at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport today, according to the Atlanta FBI. Authorities would not comment on the contents or potential of the device pending the outcome of their current investigation. "We are not prepared to share with you at this time anything in regards to that device," said Gregory Jones, special agent in charge for the Atlanta FBI, at a Wednesday afternoon news conference at the airport. "We do not know what we have. I do not want to describe it for you," he said. Atlanta Police Sgt. Shad Hutchins, who also...

Just before noon a TSA worker detected an explosive device in a bathroom. Robot checking area now...details to follow

The airport's new name -- Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport -- will be flying by year's end. Mayor Shirley Franklin said she would move quickly to rename Hartsfield International Airport after Monday's 12-2 vote by the City Council to add former Mayor Maynard Jackson's name. Jackson, Atlanta's first African-American mayor, died June 23. He and William B. Hartsfield, the city's longest-serving mayor, were credited with the growth and expansion of what is now one of the world's busiest airports. Voting against the name change were Clair Muller, who represents northwest Atlanta's District 8, and Anne Fauver, who represents east Atlanta's District 6....

City Council OKs New Airport Name The Associated Press City Council members voted today to rename Atlanta's sprawling Hartsfield International Airport, adding former Mayor Maynard Jackson's name to its title. Hartsfield International Airport will become Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport under a compromise put forward by Mayor Shirley Franklin and approved by the City Council members. The council members discussed the proposal for about two hours before voting 12 to two in favor of the change. The measure needed eight votes to pass. Council members Anne Fauver and Clair Muller voted against the renaming. Much of the opposition leading up to...

Instead of putting former Mayor Maynard Jackson's name on a new airport terminal, an Atlanta city councilman wants former Mayor William Hartsfield's name on it. Jackson's name then would replace Hartsfield's on Atlanta's main airport -- a suggestion that already has been given a cold shoulder by a special commission that will advise the City Council on mayoral honors this Friday. As the special advisory commission prepares to recommend that the council name the new $982 million international terminal for Jackson, Councilman Derrick Boazman on Monday introduced three proposals of his own: One calls for renaming Hartsfield Atlanta International Airport...

Maynard Jackson, Atlanta's first black mayor, cast a huge shadow Tuesday over his white predecessors as the campaign to rename Atlanta's airport developed into raw racial politics. "This really shouldn't be about what the white business establishment would allow," said state Rep. "Able" Mable Thomas, a former Atlanta City Council member. "It's really what the strength of the African-American community will allow. What will we stand for? The real deal is we stood too long silent. Atlanta is being gentrified every day. So, while you do still have a majority, as Maynard would say, use the power you have today."...

Hartsfield screener charged with theft Brenden Sager - Staff Sunday, March 2, 2003 A Transportation Security Administration screener was charged with theft Friday morning after he took money out of a passenger's wallet at a security checkpoint at Hartsfield International Airport, Atlanta police said Saturday. Louis Marshall faces a charge of theft by taking, said Atlanta Police spokesman John Quigley. Police did not have his age or date of birth. According to a police report, a man from Jacksonville had placed his wallet in a plastic bucket as he passed the rest of his belongs through an X-Ray machine. A...