Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg confirmed the Department of Transportation (DOT) is now investigating why Delta Air Lines passengers remained on a plane in high heat with no air conditioning at a Las Vegas airport earlier this week.
“The reports are shocking and we are investigating, I want to know how it was possible for passengers to be left in triple-digit heat onboard an aircraft for that long. Even at normal temperatures a tarmac delay is not supposed to go that long and we have rules about that, which we are actively enforcing right now,” Mr. Buttigieg said in a statement on Friday to news outlets about the incident.
