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American Airlines passengers stranded by ‘excruciating circumstances’ in Bahamas
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1:04Now PlayingAn American Airlines flight from San Juan, Puerto Rico to Miami, Florida was detoured to the Bahamas earlier last week, stranding passengers at a local airport overnight without any accommodations, forcing travelers to sleep on the floor.
It also temporarily turned the passengers into illegal immigrants in the island nation. “They made a point to mention that, like, ‘y’all are illegal immigrants here right now, y’all don’t have much say in anything.’ Even though we didn’t choose to be there,” Dimas Henriquez, passenger of American Airlines flight 2421, told Fox News Digital.
“We were literally locked in… It was not possible to leave,” he continued. “I was awake the entire time, but people were on the floor covered in corners and stuff, like very spread out. It looked like we were camping indoors.”
Henriquez said there were roughly 90 passengers on the August 3 flight that was detoured due to weather. The traveler revealed that American Airlines staff told the travelers another crew from Miami was on their way to fly them out because the original flight crew was “full on time.”
“The core of the whole issue with what happened to us was we were there for 14 hours. But what happened during the 14 hours was the really sucky part, where we only ever spoke to two people the entire time up until maybe like the very last hour, where everybody was awake and clocking into work and showing up to the airport,” Henriquez told Fox News Digital.
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