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A Delta Air Lines plane carrying 52 passengers and six crew members was hit by fireworks as it prepared to land at a Chicago airport Saturday night. The flight from Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson Airport to Midway International Airport “apparently made contact with a firework while descending,” an airline spokesperson told the BBC. “The flight landed safely