This crew landed safely after declaring nearing the destination, landed and rolled out safely, exiting on a suitable taxiway. I'd call this a good job. Now, it is possible to deconstruct this and with hindsight analyze it, finding a few in-flight planning improvements. But in reality, no flight crew is expecting to have an unusual flight control problem occur seemingly out of nowhere! Sometimes the rare problem can appear at random, and then the crew has to make everything good. This flight crew did great. I will add (as a male FI with 25 yrs of experience) that female pilots have it hard. They are second guessed by men and end up proving themselves every time they put on the uniform, and they know it. I'd feel very safe flying in the back with this crew up front.

As a non-pilot, non-ATC, I thought everyone did a good job and got that plane on the ground safely.

The emergency was NOTHING about min fuel, it just so happened they hit min fuel while dealing with the actual problem (slats malfunction)

Strong in this comment session misogyny and ageism are.

Didn’t know there were so many airline pilot in this comment section.. lol

Can't believe all these comments about DEI and such, had there been two male pilots saying exactly the same things as the female pilots said, the comment section would've been filled up with praise about how great the pilots and the communication was. They handled it safely, ran through the required checklists, didn't hesitate to declare an emergency while also declaring min fuel, and got the airplane safely down on the ground. Fox News truly are rotting people's minds. Incredible.

They told ATC they had 5400 hundred pounds of fuel (805 gals) and that is about 1 hour fuel at that altitude. A320 onboard low fuel warning system alerts when a tank gets down 750kg and the two tanks would mean 1500 kg remaining and AB budgets 1200 kg for 30 minutes flying at 1500 feet.

Flying is a numbers game. Flight time experience numbers needed. Allowable duty time number. Seniority number controls career. Passenger seats number/aircraft weight determines pay. The more hours flown the more chance having to deal with a broken airplane.

Handled pretty routinely and well done by the crew here. Suck part is getting the slat issue near the end of the flight. Airliners don't often tanker alot of extra fuel for no reason, so they often have the required legal amount plus some. When an emergency happens near the end of the flight, there's not always a ton of time to work it, so its logical they might get near the amount of fuel deemed "minimum fuel" in Delta's FOM. The min fuel call and the emergency declaration are two separate situations. Is this situation some added workload? Of course, as its an emergency procedure that needs to be ran. But the crew did fine flying the aircraft, managing the emergency, keeping ATC informed, and recovering the airplane to a safe landing.

“Who’s driving this car…..Stevie Wonder?” John Mclain, Die Hard 😂😂🤣

Over an hour of fuel left at the point they said they were running low. Way too much talking. " We need the Long final for... to configure the slats thing " " the slats thing " Is exactly where you see them nearly become task saturated. I mean everyone gone back ok and thats all that matters. Yes the CRM worked for this issue. But I feel one more fault would have overloaded them. Early on I got overloaded like this in the sims and it can only take one more minor thing to make the house of cards fall. Or worse still become task saturated to the point where you loose awareness. And at 2000 feet you don't have much thinking time to correct much. Had a similar fault happen to me when I had about 400 or so hours. luckily I was flying with a very experienced Captain. She just calmly told me to slow down and work the problem. Simple advice but it worked. Ive tried to keep that same kind of attitude since then. Ready for the hate comments but I really don't care. It's an accurate observation, they were on the edge.

Good, clear communication from both pilots and controllers.

To the sim and ga pilots with your opinions about how you could do better, I highly doubt it. They did just fine, fo included. You most likely have no idea what a slat fault qrh looks like. Its long. So you're trying to fly, talk, diagnose, follow, not screw up a long procedure, talk to pax/dx/mx/fa's/atc... All in the craziest airspace on earth. Go pound sand if you have criticism of this crew.

min fuel means still fuel for 45 mins holding and fuel to alternate left, so almost out of fuel is a bit of exaggeration

By a strange deus ex machina intervention DL1166 suddenly found itself on short final for 31L. Good CRM, as the pilots were deeply involved with JFK approach radio communication the cabin crew was going thru the ck list with the slats anamoly since passengers in 19A and 19F were able to cross refernence a symetrical positioning and No anamoly with the slats. Wow, that was a close one!!!

I'm surprised a stat issue is a long check list, put the flaps down and land

Fun exercise: 1. Read the comments. 2. assume how many of the "sim top guns" are just have an issue because it is a female crew. 3. when in doubled, listen to some of the most outrages ATC calls where a male crew almost get everybody killed and then read the comments: compare. Guys, it is 2024. A pilot at Delta is a million more times qualified then any of you; Get over it: woman are allowed to fly big planes and any person who has qualified for this job deserves the same respect. duh.

Min fuel is not “almost out of fuel”…

'Almost run out of fuel' in the title is just pure clickbait

I have a question if you have s flight control issue and your at 2000 feet. You intercept the localizer at around 3000 feet. Since you have a flight control issue why would you not climb in altitude just in case there are "more suprises" it would give you more space for manuvering? Not an fast climb, just maybe up to 5000 or 6000 feet.

Can anyone tell me why they still have departures going out in front of an emergency aircraft low on fuel?? If they have to reject and cause a go around……

When is Airbus just going to let the airplanes perform the checklist items and configure the plane operate? They have been flying an A350-1000 for years not needing pilot inputs. Taxi, take off, fly, land, and taxi autonomously.

They declared emergency as thed hot a flap problem plus they said thed got minimal fuel they could have had less than that combined with flap issues well it was at keast a pan Pan pan i guess they calculate fuel needed but if thed been issses in air it was proberly pushing it

Should JFK be shut down ?

"We need...for the slats thing." OMG. If she was Bahamian maybe she would use the more colorful words slats tingum. The old fashion way of saying it more like for the slats failure, check list,or slat malfunction. At least we didn't hear an airline pilot say "the slats thingy."

Intense situation to be in. Nicely handled by everyone!

The one pilot sounds very unsure of themselves.

Is there one person in charge on that plane or is fly by committee and make it up as you go?

The kids even have ATC confused. Inside the fix, at the fix, outside the fix? Selection and training has changed at Delta.

The pilot handling most of the comms sounds hot

To much Voice from both sides.

I think I have heard that voice before. Was she the junior agent on Frasier? Or Allen Harper's receptionist and Charley's squeeze?

Planes have reserve fuel so they are a long way from running out of fuel.

Poor cockpit resource management and unnecessary

Sounds like an an all female flight crew, not that that matters, they did an impressive job and CRM was noticeable.

I swear the pilots sound like a couple of teenagers.

how did they arrive with 5400 pounds of fuel going into JFK? Where is the alternate fuel and extra gas? This was a Cluster .. mess that fortunately ended up being a good ending.

“Do you still need to run through your long checklist with Approach?” *completely ignores question* Also tired of American pilots not using standard phraseology.

I thought Delta had the highest standard of pilot selection. The PM sounds like a student pilot. Kudos to the PF or whoever talked less.

What could go wrong with 2 DEi hires. She ask for vectors; ok vectors to where? New Zealand. Define the vectors or enter holding at a reporting point. Then define the lengths. She kept saying vectors,WTF does that mean?

It sounds like Delta is hiring sub standard pilots like United is.

this just sounds so fake.

I don't think either of them are over the age of 15...

Hey, Capt.... why don't we just keep running this problem until we run completely out of fuel! Pft... DEI is SAD!!!!!! How's your lipstick look?

Ok, just think about it for a minute. If you could hear these transmissions between the two female pilots and ATC while you were on this flight you can't tell me that this wouldn't bring up a serious thought of pilot competency. These two are CLEARLY not Capt Sullivan.

I don't want my pilots to sound like this.

I hate when pilots get lazy and fade and mumble near the end of transmissions. I can't recall in 40 years ATC ever doing it and controllers talk a lot more each shift than a pilot.

5,400 lbs of fuel and then they are emergency fuel??? Sounds like these Delta pilots do not deserve to fly people at all.

DEI hire.

2 DEI Hires that would probably panic when the Microwave goes off.