Passengers who spent the night in Iceland when a WestJet flight from the U.K. to Edmonton was forced to land after it experienced a mechanical issue have arrived home.

The flight was diverted to Reykjavik on Saturday morning after the pilots declared an emergency “out of an abundance of caution" and the aircraft was given a priority landing with emergency vehicles standing by.

WestJet officials say the flight landed normally and passengers were accommodated with hotel rooms and food vouchers until flights could be rebooked.

"On Saturday, September 10th WestJet Flight 27 made an emergency landing in Iceland after the crew experienced a vibration in the left side engine on the aircraft. In accordance with standard operating procedures, the crew made the most conservative decision to divert to Iceland. This decision ensured the safety of guests, crew and aircraft," said WestJet Spokesperson Lauren Stewart in a statement to CTV News.

The flight crew made the decision to jettison the fuel so the aircraft could land safely and officials with the airline say the process is done at a high altitude so that it dissipates and does not affect other aircraft.

Stewart says a WestJet maintenance team has arrived in Iceland and will inspect the aircraft to determine what happened.

On Sunday night, passengers were greeted at the Calgary International Airport and those CTV News talked to say everyone remained calm during the emergency landing.

“It was long. There was a noise on the plane but I don’t think any of us realized that there was a real problem, they just said that we’re going to make a landing for maintenance to check it over and it was obviously a bit more than that when we got there,” said Karen Austin.

“I just heard a big bang and so I knew something was happening with the engine but the staff and everybody, there was no panic, none whatsoever and we were in Iceland. We were very well received.” said Monique Harrington.

There were 258 people on the flight and the airline also provided a recovery plane for Edmonton passengers, which landed there on Sunday evening.

WestJet says it took time to coordinate with airport officials in Iceland and apologized to guests for the inconvenience.