New York-bound Delta flight diverted to island in Atlantic after engine issue - Nearly 300 Delta passengers were stranded for 30 hours after an engine issue forced an emergency landing in the mid-Atlantic.

NEW YORK (WABC) -- Passengers are speaking out after their flight bound for New York City was forced to make an emergency landing on a small remote island in the middle of the ocean earlier this week. "People were crying. There were people praying. Nobody really knew what was happening," Marc Viscardi said.

An engine issue forced a Delta flight bound for John F. Kennedy Airport to land on a remote island in the North Atlantic Ocean this week, officials said.