Passengers who were travelling on aDelta flight to New York were diverted and taken to a Portuguese island instead, where they were allegedly stuck for as many as 12 hours in a secluded part of the airport. They claimed they had to beg for food, and accussumaed airline representatives of telling them not to start “a revolution.”
“About 5 hours into our trip across the Atlantic Ocean, the pilot made an unexpected, sharp right turn and announced that the plane was being diverted due to a mechanical issue,” passenger Nana Asante-Smith wrote on Facebook. “Groups of flight attendants scurried to the front. The inflight entertainment system’s route changed and our destination was no longer JFK, but rather Terceira. Terceira Island, Portugal. One flight attendant told one of our guests that we were being diverted because someone was very ill on the plane.”
