40-hour flightmare for passengers stuck 2,300 miles from their destination after a midair emergency

• A Virgin Atlantic formation diverted halfway done its travel from London to Mumbai.

• The Airbus A350 landed astatine an airdrome successful Turkey and didn't instrumentality disconnected for different 40 hours.

• Passengers spent the archetypal nighttime successful the departure lounge earlier hotels could beryllium arranged.

Airline passengers person been delayed astir 2 days aft a aesculapian exigency forced an unexpected stopover.

Virgin Atlantic Flight 358 took disconnected from London Heathrow Airport astatine midday Wednesday and was scheduled to onshore successful Mumbai astir 9 hours later.

However, information from Flightradar24 shows the Airbus A350 turned astir implicit Turkey 4 hours into the journey.

It diverted to Diyarbakır Airport, which is besides utilized arsenic a subject basal and doesn't usually accommodate large, wide-body planes similar the A350.

The airdrome is astir 2,300 miles arsenic the crow flies from Mumbai and 2,100 miles from London.

An hose spokesperson told Business Insider that 1 of the passengers was severely unwell and was helped by section aesculapian teams aft leaving the plane.

The A350 besides required method inspections, which look to person exacerbated the delay.

Some passengers took to X to kick astir the ordeal, sharing a video of the disgruntled crowd.

One idiosyncratic said that 12 hours aft landing, passengers were yet to person "proper nutrient oregon accommodation."

In an X post, the hose said customers had to enactment successful the departure lounge overnight due to the fact that it was extracurricular the airport's operating hours — portion refreshments, including water, were provided.

There were besides difficulties with migration requirements earlier airdrome authorities "made an objection to let passengers to permission the airdrome temporarily," different station from the hose said.

"The bulk of our customers were provided with overnight edifice accommodation up of their onward travel today," the Virgin Atlantic spokesperson told BI Friday. "We'd similar to sincerely apologize for the hold and immoderate inconvenience caused."

They added that, aft receiving the indispensable method approvals, the formation was acceptable to proceed astatine noon section clip connected Friday — almost 41 hours aft landing successful Diyarbakır.

The Airbus A350 is scheduled to onshore successful Mumbai astatine 8:30 p.m. section clip Friday.

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