Flight from New Zealand makes 16 hour round trip back to New Zealand due to power outage at JFK airport terminal

Passengers take 16-hour flight to nowhere after Auckland to New York U-turn

Data from Flightradar24’s website showed the Boeing 787 jet making a u-turn about halfway into its nearly 9,000-mile journey over the Pacific Ocean, just south of Hawaii.

Flight from New Zealand makes 16 hour round trip back to New Zealand due to power outage at JFK airport terminal - National Zero

A flight from Auckland, New Zealand to New York City’s JFK airport on Friday turned around over the middle of the Pacific Ocean, eight hours into the flight, due to a power outage at the terminal which would have forced the plane itself (but not the passengers) to be stuck on the ground in NYC for several days while the schedule got fixed, the Wall Street Journal reports. The post Flight from New Zealand makes 16 hour round trip back to New Zeal…

Plane spends 16 hours in the air, ends up back at same New Zealand airport

Passengers on a flight from New Zealand to New York spent 16 hours in the air just to end up at the same airport where their journey began.

Passengers take 16-hour flight to nowhere after Auckland to New York U-turn

Passengers boarding a trans-Pacific flight from Auckland to New York on Thursday evening had no idea of the rude awakening that awaited them: a 16-hour ordeal that saw them back at square one. Air New Zealand Ltd. Flight NZ2 should have touched down at John F. Kennedy International Airport Terminal 1 at 5:40 pm local time, but a power outage threw operations into disarray,

Passengers took a 16-hour flight to nowhere after their plane to New York U-turned because of an electrical fire at JFK Airport

An Air New Zealand flight to New York made a U-turn over the Pacific Ocean because of a "small isolated fire" at JFK Airport.

New Zealand Flight to NYC Makes 16-Hour U-Turn Amid JFK Terminal Mayhem, Report Says

The passengers and crew aboard Air New Zealand Flight NZ2 were in the air for roughly 16 hours, only to return to their point of origin after the JFK mess.