Yahoo Autos More Than 200 People Stranded In Remote Canadian Military Barracks Due To Plane's Mechanical Issues
Delta Air Lines Flight 135 was scheduled to fly from Amsterdam Airport Schiphol to Detroit, Michigan last weekend, but mechanical issues stranded passengers at a remote Canadian Forces Barracks for over 21 hours while the airline attempted to send relief planes and crews to evacuate the passengers before a record-setting blizzard would have kept them there even longer.
The Delta airliner experienced a mechanical problem while crossing the Atlantic Ocean and needed to make an emergency landing, CBS News reports. Canadian Forces Base Goose Bay in Labrador was the closest runway long enough to accommodate the large passenger aircraft.
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