Passengers on a Delta flight from Amsterdam spend the night at a military base in Canada after a layover | outside

according to CNN This concerns 270 passengers who left Amsterdam and were on their way to the American city of Detroit, Michigan. Flight 135 had nine hours to take off, but made an unexpected diversion to Happy Valley-Goose Bay in the remote Canadian province of Newfoundland. It is currently unknown whether Belgians are also among the passengers.

According to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), America’s aviation authority, the pilot reported “problems with de-icing equipment.” This equipment keeps engines free of ice and no longer works with an engine. The Federal Aviation Administration announced that it had begun an investigation into the accident.

The plane landed at a military base in Canada, where passengers initially had to wait on the plane for hours. Later, most of them spent the night in military barracks because there were not enough hotel rooms in the town, whose population does not exceed 8,000 people. The next day, more than 24 hours after departure from Amsterdam, the plane took passengers to Detroit.

Delta says it will compensate passengers, although the airline does not want to specify how much will be paid per person, reports say. Daily Mail.

This is not the first time a Delta plane arriving from Amsterdam has had problems with icing. On October 25, a flight bound for Los Angeles had to turn back after an hour and a half in the air due to problems with the equipment that keeps the wings clear of ice.