A Delta jet, carrying nearly 300 travelers and crew, incurred engine problems over the Atlantic before landing on an island in the middle of the ocean where passengers had to spend the night, officials said Thursday.

Delta Air Lines passengers spent a day on the remote Azores island chain, nearly 1,000 miles from the European mainland.

Passengers on a Delta Air Lines flight from Madrid to New York made an emergency landing in the Portuguese Island of Terceira in the Azores. The airline said the John F. Kennedy International Airport-bound flight experienced an engine problem after midnight and made an emergency landing.