200+ People on Delta Flight Spend Nearly 24 Hours in Remote Canadian Town After Plane Issue

A Detroit-bound Delta flight with some 270 passengers on board had to be diverted to a remote Canadian town on Sunday after the plane encountered a mechanical issue, forcing an emergency landing.

The Airbus 330, which originally departed from Amsterdam, ended up in Goose Bay, Newfoundland, located some 1,700 miles away from Detroit, the Detroit Free Press reported.

Passenger Aditi Shankar said airline staffers announced there was a problem with the de-icing mechanisms on one of the engines. In a video taken from inside the plane, Shankar explains that she hadn't eaten a real meal in 15 hours.

The passengers said that after landing in the Canadian Province of Newfoundland and Labrador, they had to wait on the runway for several hours. However, they were eventually placed in military barracks near the airport overnight.

Due to adverse weather and a crew time-out, the last leg of the trip was repeatedly postponed. Delta finally sent a rescue flight for the stranded passengers Monday morning.

All told, the flight was delayed by about 24 hours.

"I don't know what day it is anymore," passenger Tony Santoro told Detroit station WJBK-TV.

Santoro said he had been away for four months on a study-abroad trip. He'd been trying to get home for four days straight.

Gerry Santoro, the father of the recently returned man, told the station that he was in disbelief that his son had finally come back.

"They left Friday night from campus on a bus and with every single delay it got more fantastical," Gerry Santoro said. "Then when we heard they were doing an emergency landing...we just said this is the icing on the cake."

"Delta sent additional aircraft to Goose Bay to bring customers to their final destination Monday," the airline said in a statement to the Detroit News. "We apologize to customers for this inconvenience."

Delta promised to compensate passengers for the incident but didn't specify how much reimbursement they would receive.