Delta flight with roughly 300 passengers diverted to island in Atlantic Ocean

The Lajes airfield, a US airbase on Terceira Island in the archipelago of Azores, last year. Photograph: Rui Soares/AFP via Getty Images

A Delta flight was diverted to an island in the Atlantic this week after the plane experienced a mechanical issue, leaving the nearly 300 passengers on the island for a day.

The New York-bound flight took off from Madrid on Sunday, but as the flight made its way over the ocean, the flight crew had to divert it to an island in the Azores island group.