Air New Zealand Limited flight NZ2 from Auckland to New York It was scheduled to land at John F. Kennedy International Airport Terminal 1 at 5:40 p.m. local time, but a power outage occurred.. The disruption affected at least 135 flights to and from the city, including the New Zealand flight.
According to Flightradar24 The Boeing 787 overturned midway through the nearly 14,000km flight over the Pacific Ocean.. In a statement, Air New Zealand explained that the plane had to turn back due to an electrical fire at JFK Airport’s Terminal 1 and the subsequent closure of the terminal. According to the airline, landing at another airport was out of the question, because after that the plane would have been on the ground for several days, and this would have disrupted many other scheduled flights.
This was not the first case of people flying and spending many hours in the air for nothing, the last time this happened was in January when an Emirates flight from Dubai to Auckland was turned back due to flooding at the destination, which meant 13 hours. of unnecessary flight time for passengers.
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