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Diverting for an emergency landing in raleigh-durham. >> we are declaring an emergency. we will need crews out there on the roll out. >> reporter: delta says it was a contained failure of that left engine with the nose cone still bouncing around. and an orange glow around the still spinning shaft. the jetliner touched down yesterday afternoon, and those emergency vehicles racing out to make sure the trouble did not spread. the aircraft is a 32-year-old md-88, with the engines mounted on the fuselage near the tail. hours later, passengers finally made it to baltimore with stories to tell. >> i ...

Result. that was on an md-88 which is where the engines are tightly fitted right close to the fuselage in the back. in this case the 737, you see it highlighted there. the left side, the engine hangs underneath the wing, and so the risk of jeopardy is slightly diminished because it's just farther away from the passengers. and the seating arrangement and window arrangement of these aircrafts is designed so that if these things happen, people are not in harm's way. so that's what happened. obviously the aircraft is perfectly fine to fly on one engine, and it did, in fact, land safely. obviously ...

That's when even unlikely passengers begin to pray. >> i started noticing at a certain point a mist coming through. then i realized mist coming through the cabin was smoke. i could smell the smoke. then i looked back toward the rear of the plane it was dark. and people were coughing. some people were crying. i'm not religious but i clenched my fifth and i said, okay, god i'm with you now. get us down please. and i promised to be a good boy. >> reporter: a good boy today, that's for sure. delta air lines said issue was oil leak in two of its engines. the boeing md-88 landed safely in charleston...

Scream drops tears. >> i looked back toward the rear of the plane and it was dark and people were coughing some people were crying. i'm not religious, but i clenched my fist and said okay god, i'm with you now. get us down please. and i promise to be a good boy. >> delta airlines says the issue was mechanical oil leaking into two engines of that boeing md-88. by midnight all 89 passengers were on a replacement plane landing safely at laguardia and are in new york today. back to you. >> >> good ending to that. what do a century-old potteries, bear on the move and flowers for mom have in commo...

Slamming into a barrier just feet from the frozen bay. cnn's miguel marquez is at laguardia this morning with a status at the airport as the investigation continues. >> well trying to get back to normal here michaela it's absolutely incredible when you consider how forceful that plane came to a landing, that nobody was more badly injured. 1086 a delta flight from atlanta to laguardia landed here around 11:00 a.m. just after a pilot throughout the day had reported different conditions on the runway runway 13 at laguardia that goes along flushing bay, 7,000-foot runway. when that plane hit the g...