![]() ![]() The aggrieved passenger also said that an airport representative told the passengers to “not start ‘a revolution’ and ‘be grateful for a second chance at life’”. When asked about drinking water by a passenger, “a woman wearing a white shirt” told the man that he could drink from the bathroom faucets.Īsante-Smith said that after “begging and pleading” they were given “paper bags with ham sandwiches (that many could not eat due to dietary restrictions associated with pork), juice boxes and cookies/crackers”. The crew members, she said, went to a hotel, “not to be seen again”.Īsante-Smith claimed that the airport officials did not provide food to the stranded passengers and only those with a credit card could purchase something from a small cafe. In her post, Asante-Smith shared that once they landed on the island the passengers were sent to “a partitioned section of the building without access to freely move around the airport because those with Ghanaian passports did not have the requisite visas”. The spokesperson added that the oxygen in the cabin and cockpit was normal but the plane landed at the Lajes Airport in TerceiraIslands out of “an abundance of caution”. She said that the cabin crew assured her that the oxygen level was low in the cockpit but “everything was just fine”.Ī spokesperson for Delta Air Lines told Insider that Flight 157 was diverted to a Portuguese island in the Atlantic due to a “mechanical issue with a backup oxygen system”. “One flight attendant told one of our guests that we were being diverted because someone was very ill on the plane,” Asante-Smith wrote.
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