Passengers and crew on board a Delta flight from Kansas City to New York returned safely to KC Tuesday morning after the plane experienced a mechanical issue.

Delta flight 884 took off at 10:54 a.m. from Kansas City International Airport bound for New York-LaGuardia.

Flight tracking website FlightAware shows the flight, an Airbus A221, ascended to roughly 26,000 feet over north-central Missouri when the crew reported the onboard auxiliary power unit was overheating.

The crew decided to return to KCI, where it landed without incident at 12:02 p.m.

The flight crew, following expert training and procedures, safely returned to Kansas City after indication of the aircrafts auxiliary power unit overheating, a Delta spokesperson said in a statement to KSHB 41 News. Delta apologizes to our cus

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