A Delta Air Lines Flight Had To Turn Around Over The Atlantic And Return To New York Because Of A Fuel Problem

A Delta Air Lines plane had to turn over over the Atlantic due to a fuel imbalance, according to Newsweek. The Ghana-bound flight returned to New York after the fuel problem was discovered, the report said. One passenger said in a YouTube video that it was “the scariest day of my life”.

A Delta Air Lines flight was forced to turn around over the Atlantic Ocean after the pilots discovered there was a fuel problem. Newsweek was the first to report the news. The Delta flight took off Sunday from John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York and was scheduled to transfer to Kotoka International Airport in Accra, Ghana, according to Newsweek. Instead, the plane turned over the Atlantic and returned to New York, according to the report. A Delta spokesperson confirmed the incident to Insider. An airline spokesperson told Newsweek that the plane flew back to JFK “out of caution due to an in-flight fuel imbalance.” A fuel imbalance is when the amount of fuel between the left and right wing fuel tanks of the aircraft is unequal, according to Boeing. “An emergency was declared on arrival at JFK to receive priority handling from air traffic control,” a Delta spokesperson told Newsweek. The flight landed in New York safely and passengers deplaned, the person added. A map showing the anomalous location where a Delta flight from JFK to Accra, Ghana, was forced to turn around. Google Maps Arieh Smith, a YouTuber who was on the flight, uploaded a video in which he said the plane turned around two hours into the flight. “I see the captain come down the runway and start looking out the window on the wing of the plane,” Smith said in the video, adding that the captain told passengers the plane had a fuel problem that meant it had to return to New. York. Smith, who has more than 5 million followers on YouTube, described it as “the scariest day of my life”. After the plane landed in New York, Smith recorded himself looking into the plane’s cockpit and talking to the pilots, who told him in the video: “We couldn’t automatically or manually balance the fuel, so we couldn’t let’s continue the flight. “ The story continues Smith did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Insider. Fuel problems in aircraft are not unheard of. Last week, a Qantas Airways plane nearly ran out of fuel on approach to the Australian city of Perth, prompting the crew to declare an emergency for a priority landing. Read the original article on Business Insider