‘Treated Like Roaches’: Passengers Slam Airport Staff After Allegedly Being Starved, ‘Abandoned’ for 12 Hours on Remote Island After Emergency Landing

Passengers on a Delta Airlines flight headed to New York from Ghana claimed that they were starved for hours and told to “be grateful” after the plane diverted due to mechanical issues and landed on a remote island for nearly 12 hours.

Delta Flight 157 diverted to an airport on Terceira Island in the Azores on Friday out of “an abundance of caution” as the plane had begun to undergo a “mechanical issue with a backup oxygen system.”

“Delta flight 157 from Accra to New York-JFK diverted to Lajes Airport following a mechanical issue that required observation,” Delta said on Friday in a statement to Pulse.

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