A Delta Air Lines flight was forced to return to Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport shortly after takeoff to Amsterdam late Sunday afternoon following a mechanical issue.
Delta Flight 160 landed without incident around 5:20 p.m., according to the Federal Aviation Administration. The landing came after pilots of the Airbus A330 — a wide-bodied aircraft — reported a mechanical issue with the aircraft’s flaps, and there were no reported injuries, according to Delta.
The plane landed about an hour after takeoff, according to flight-tracking website FlightAware.
All 272 passengers onboard have been booked on other flights to Amsterdam as of Monday, according to the airline.
“We apologize to our customers for this delay in their travels,” the airline said in a statement.
The incident will be investigated by the FAA, according to FAA officials. The agency investigates emergency landings when they occur, but does not maintain a specific database of the number of such landings.
Delta Air Lines offers two daily flights from Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport to Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport in the Netherlands during the winter and three daily flights in the summer.
The incident comes less than a week after a crash between an American Airlines jet and an Army helicopter over Washington, D.C., killed 67 people. It was the deadliest U.S. air disaster since 2001.
The FAA handles an average of 45,000 daily flights, with nearly 3 million passengers flying in and out of U.S. airports on a daily basis in the 2023 fiscal year, according to the FAA.