Passengers on board a Delta flight to New York were diverted to a Portuguese island where they say they were stuck in a secluded part of the airport for 12 hours and had to beg for food, as airline representatives warned them not to start “a revolution.”
Flight 157 was carrying 200 people from Ghana to New York on Friday when it experienced a “mechanical issue with a backup oxygen system” and diverted to the Lajes Airport, a spokesperson for Delta told the Post.
“We were abandoned by Delta and treated like encroaching roaches by airport representatives on Terceira Islands,” passenger Nana Asante-Smith wrote on Facebook, saying they had a “reckless disregard for human life and well-being.”
At the airport, Asante-Smith said, the passengers were brought to a “partitioned section” because the Ghanaian citizens did not have the requisite visas to enter Portugal.
She told Business Insider they arrived around 6 a.m., but the crew were soon shuttled away to a hotel — while the passengers were told to remain and contact Delta for more information.
“We were trying to reach out to Delta during this time, and ascertain what exactly was going on, to no avail,” said Asante-Smith, who was in Ghana with family and friends to celebrate her marriage.
She said airport representatives told them they would be given a meal, and that a plane from Boston would arrive in several hours to pick them up.
But around 11:30 a.m., she wrote on Facebook, “we learned that we would no longer be fed, because according to an airport representative, Delta had informed them that we had already eaten in advance of our landing, a little before 6 a.m.
“We had no other access to food.”
Asante-Smith said she and her fellow passengers were left “befuddled” by the response, with one elderly man asking a representative if he could get a bottle of water.
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