A Delta Airways flight certain for Amsterdam was pressured to make an emergency touchdown at JFK Worldwide Airport early Wednesday after passengers got rotten meals.
Delta Flight 126, an in a single day flight with 277 passengers on board, took off from Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport on Tuesday shortly earlier than 11 p.m.
An airline spokesperson confirmed in a press release that the airplane was “diverted to New York’s JFK airport early Wednesday morning after a portion of the in-flight meal service was discovered to be defective.” The airplane landed safely at round four a.m.
“Medical groups had been on web site to obtain the plane and deal with affected passengers and crew members,” the assertion mentioned, with out offering particulars on how many individuals ate the spoiled meals.
The New York Fireplace Division mentioned medical personnel handled 12 passengers after the airplane landed.
“Delta groups will work instantly to assemble data on how this incident occurred,” the assertion concluded. “This isn’t the service Delta is understood for and we sincerely apologize to our prospects for the inconvenience and delays to their travels.”
Some passengers are nonetheless disturbed by the incident regardless of Delta's mea culpa.
“I have to understand how I’m going to get to Amsterdam as we speak. I’m on the airplane that’s making an emergency touchdown at JFK as a result of they served ‘contaminated’ meals to the passengers,” one traveler wrote in a put up on X. “I don’t want lodge vouchers or meals, I have to get to Amsterdam as we speak.”
The diverted flight was scheduled to depart JFK at three p.m. and arrive within the Netherlands at four:20 a.m. native time on Thursday, about 16 hours after the scheduled touchdown time.