✈️ 航班起飞后即发生烤箱火情：达美航空从尼日利亚拉各斯飞往亚特兰大的DL55航班，在起飞不到40分钟后，机上一台烤箱发生火灾。

🔥 机组人员迅速响应并控制火情：机上乘务员及时发现并扑灭了烤箱内的火情，确保了飞机的安全，未造成人员伤亡。

⏳ 乘客行程受阻，延误近两天：由于机组人员已达工作时限，飞机被迫在加纳阿克拉紧急降落。部分乘客被改签至飞往纽约的航班，但仍有乘客在阿克拉滞留，直到两天后飞机才重新起飞，比原定抵达时间晚了近48小时。

✈️ 备降机场的选择与原因：飞机降落在离起飞地较近的加纳阿克拉，这使得航空公司在处理机组更换和乘客转运方面可能更具操作性，但此次延误时间之长也凸显了后续保障的复杂性。

A Delta flight from Nigeria to Atlanta diverted shortly after takeoff.One of the on-board ovens caught fire but was contained by the crew.Some passengers were rebooked on flights to New York, but others had to wait two days.

A Delta Air Lines plane diverted after an oven caught fire on board, forcing some passengers to wait two days before continuing their journey.

Flight 55 took off from Lagos, Nigeria, shortly after noon last Tuesday, headed for Atlanta.

However, less than 40 minutes after takeoff, the Airbus A330 U-turned while over Ghana.

It descended and landed in Ghana's capital, Accra, just over an hour after first lifting off.

Michael Achimugu, the director of public affairs at Nigeria's Civil Aviation Authority, said in an X post that there was a fire in one of the aircraft's ovens.

The Aviation Herald reported that the fire was quickly contained by the flight attendants.

Achimugu added that the plane couldn't take off again because the crew had reached their maximum working hours.

Meanwhile, some passengers were rebooked on different flights to try to reach Atlanta as soon as possible.

Achimugu said some of them were able to fly to New York the same evening, and others the following day.

But it wasn't until Thursday that the A330 departed Accra, landing in Atlanta around 7 p.m.

That was almost precisely 48 hours after the flight was originally scheduled to land at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport

Delta Air Lines did not immediately respond to a request for comment sent outside US working hours.

A similar incident took place on a KLM flight in 2023. Passengers were left shaken and in tears after smoke came from one of the ovens during the journey from Amsterdam to South Africa.

Cabin crew again managed to extinguish the fire, and the plane turned around and flew back to Amsterdam.

Returning to a flight's origin airport can make it easier for the airline to find a replacement crew and reroute passengers. But other times, urgency can force them to the nearest airport.