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6 unusual facts about Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport


1992 Hooters 500

On the night before pole qualifying, Richard Petty's cousin and longtime crew chief and team manager Dale Inman was robbed at gunpoint in the parking lot of the Atlanta airport.

Beijing Daxing International Airport

The airport was planned to be able to handle 120 to 200 million passengers a year, which, if capacity were fully used, would make it the world's busiest airport by passenger traffic, surpassing Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport.

Daytona Beach International Airport

Daytona Beach has two carriers, Delta Air Lines to Atlanta and New York(LGA) and US Airways to Charlotte.

Livescribe

For example, in 2009, Delta Air Lines accused the manager of Atlanta's airport of using a Livescribe pen to illegally record a meeting of city and airline officials without their consent.

Michael Burks

On May 6, 2012, upon returning from a tour of Europe, Burks collapsed at Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport.

Precision runway monitor

Airports at which PRM is in use in the United States include Minneapolis, St. Louis, New York, Philadelphia, San Francisco, and Atlanta.


Atlantic Southeast Airlines Flight 529

Atlantic Southeast Airlines Flight 529 was an Embraer Brasilia aircraft that crashed near Carrollton, Georgia in the United States on August 21, 1995 while on a flight from the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport to Gulfport-Biloxi International Airport in Gulfport, Mississippi.

Gwinnett County Airport

Atlanta's dominant airline, Delta, lobbied against the proposal due to its reluctance to split operations between Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport and Briscoe Field, even though three low-cost carriers, Allegiant, JetBlue, and Virgin America, do not yet offer service to Atlanta.

Roy Hartsfield

In 1977, Hartsfield was hired as the first-ever manager of the expansion Toronto Blue Jays by the Jays' first general manager, Peter Bavasi, who had worked with him in the Dodger organization.

Roy LeCraw

He joined the Army, resigning his post in May 1942 when mayor pro tem George B. Lyle took over until a special election could be held on May 27, in which Hartsfield defeated eight opponents.

Sharon Feingold

She can be heard daily on HGTV and on STYLE Network and is the station announcer for the ATL Skytrain and The Plane Train (since March 2012) at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, as well as the Incline Railway at Chattanooga, Tennessee's Lookout Mountain.


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