Delta passengers spend 29 hours in the small island in the middle of the Atlantic after the engine problem

Customers on a Delta air lines going to New York from Madrid Terceira, Azadores – A small island in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean – a small island with an engine problem made an emergency landing.

On Sunday, New York has 282 clients and 13 crew members at the New York John F. Kennedy International Airport, when the Airlbus A330 fell to the autonomous region of the Portuguese, the Autonomous Republic of Portugal. They lasted 29 hours on the island.

“First of all, the flight crew, as security, followed by a mechanical issue with the engine, followed by the redirection procedures for Azad (TER), freedoms (TER),” Delta Press Secretary. “The flight landed in a safe place and sincerely apologies for their experience from our customers and delay in their journeys.”

Delta did not show the essence of the mechanical issue.

The flight landed in a safe place and the customers were full of stairs within an hour, informed the press secretary by an air. Until Wednesday, Spokeshero’s information was still available in the fact that the plane was still detained.

Customers and crew were held in territorial hotels in the night and was provided. He came to a new plane and came to JFK airport on Monday.

The New York flight from Madrid normally takes 8 hours and 20 minutes.

Delta will appeal to customers to apologize directly and offer compensation.

The Secretary of Transport This year Sean Duffy He tried to make sure that flying Americans.

“If you enter a plane, you have a safe place in February, of course, if you look at how many flights you fly,” Duffy said in February.

CBS reports reached the Federal Aviation Administration for comment.