Canadian province. It is known for its warmth and hospitality towards the thousands of airline passengers who were diverted due to the accident. September 11th attacks The company once again welcomed hundreds of surprise visitors, but this time because Delta Airlines described one of its planes as having a “mechanical issue.”
The flight, which departed from Amsterdam on Sunday afternoon and was bound for Detroit, was forced to fly to Happy Valley-Goose Bay, a town of about 8,000 people in the northeastern state of Newfoundland and Labrador, after the engine’s de-icing system activated, the company said. It was announced that the aircraft was forced to land. Stopped working.
All 270 passengers, three pilots and seven flight attendants spent the night at a military barracks in town, a Delta spokesperson said in an email.
“Weather and runway conditions at the Goose Bay Airport have affected crew hours and caused the airport to suspend operations,” he said, adding that Delta Air Lines has added additional flights to the airport on Monday to transport passengers to Detroit. He pointed out that an aircraft had been dispatched. “We apologize for the inconvenience caused to our customers.”
Some passengers said on social media: ordeal there they were waiting 10 hours or more Due to worsening weather conditions, they waited on the tarmac for another plane to retrieve them.
“The Wildest Emergency Landing” I have written One person.
another begged: “Please send help!”
Passenger Trevor Wilson, who was returning from a business trip in Europe, said in a phone interview that he noticed something for the first time when the flight path displayed on the screen in the back seat in front of him appeared to show a hairpin turn. He said he noticed something was wrong. Wilson, 42, said shortly afterward that a flight attendant told passengers about a problem with the de-icing system.
After waiting on the plane for several hours, the passengers were transferred to a second flight to Detroit, he said, but were informed that the plane could no longer legally operate due to crew overtime. The passengers were then given pizza and taken to a military barracks for the night, he added.
A Delta Air Lines spokesperson said the airline was working with Goose Bay officials to arrange food, water and lodging, and that customers would be compensated for the experience, but did not provide further details.
The Federal Aviation Administration announced it would investigate the diversion.
In 2001, after the September 11 attacks, dozens of planes were diverted to Newfoundland and Labrador, leaving thousands of air passengers stranded for several days. Most of those planes were diverted to Gander, a town in northeastern Newfoundland. Gander is the town whose philanthropy during a global crisis was the inspiration for the award-winning musical Come From Away.
Wilson, a passenger on the Delta flight, said he thought of the musical almost instantly when he learned he was being diverted to Canada. “This is a small town and the people there just really wanted to help us,” she said, noting that locals bused people and made hot chocolate. , he said.
She added: “Everyone was very, very, very nice.”