A Delta Air Traces flight from Ghana to New York made an emergency touchdown at a small airport on a distant island within the Atlantic Ocean — the place the passengers have been left stranded for 12 hours whereas your entire Delta flight crew have been “whisked away” to accommodations, in line with the Every day Beast. When passengers tried to get assist from airport employees at Lajes Airport in Terceira, reps instructed them it was out of their arms (watch video beneath).
Many of the passengers, with out visas, have been trapped in only a small part of the airport, a lot of the time with out meals or drinks — aside from water supplied from the lavatory sinks.
“We have been deserted by Delta and handled like encroaching roaches by airport representatives on Terceira Islands,” one of many passengers stated. Enjoyable occasions.
Just some hours after taking off from Ghana on Friday, Flight 157 was diverted from its New York vacation spot to the island of Terceira after a “mechanical difficulty with a backup oxygen system,” a Delta spokesperson instructed Insider.
The 215 passengers spent a lot of their time on the island with out meals, water, or updates from employees, in line with accounts posted by a number of passengers on social media.
One passenger, Nana Asante-Smith, wrote on Fb that she and her fellow passengers skilled a “reckless disregard for human life and well-being.”
For hours, passengers needed to drink water from rest room taps till a restaurant opened later within the day, Asante-Smith wrote, including that some ham sandwiches have been later distributed to the dissatisfaction of many Muslim vacationers with dietary restrictions.
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Asante-Smith stated they arrived at round 6 a.m., and that the air crew have been quickly shuttled away to a lodge, whereas passengers have been instructed to stay and tried to contact Delta for extra info.
“We have been making an attempt to succeed in out to Delta throughout this time, and confirm what precisely was occurring to no avail,” Asante-Smith stated. …
She stated passengers have been “befuddled” by the response from airport representatives, and for hours did not obtain info from Delta on what they may count on.
When one aged passenger requested for water bottles, he was instructed by a feminine airport employees that they may drink water from taps within the loos, Asante-Smith stated. However none of them had cups, and few had water bottles, she added.
The identical employees instructed the passengers, a lot of whom are Black, a number of occasions that they should not “begin a revolution” and that they need to “be grateful at a second likelihood at life,” Asante-Smith stated.