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NEW YORK (WABC) -- It was a travel nightmare for hundreds of passengers. They are finally home after their flight from London to New York was forced to make an emergency landing in a remote corner of Canada. There were no hotels available, so passengers had to camp overnight in a tiny airport while the airline tried to figure out how to get them all home.
For the 250 passengers an 8 hour flight became a 27 hour nightmare.
"We're really just really thankful to be in New York," passenger Maya Torayn said.
Virgin Atlantic's flight V-S-25 took off from London's Heathrow Airport on Saturday. It was set to arrive at JFK airport just before midnight on Saturday until the pilots reported a problem.
http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?section=news/local/new_york&id=9211319
enlightenment
(8,830 posts)is infinitely better than not getting home at all.
I feel for them, but they're alive - that's what counts.
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)Stargazer09
(2,131 posts)But honestly, I would be thankful the plane made it over the ocean and landed safely. A fuel leak is not the sort of thing you want on any flight, especially a trans-Atlantic one.
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)Stargazer09
(2,131 posts)The pilots, the aircrew, the airplane...
The list goes on.
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)Stargazer09
(2,131 posts)I'm not much of a drinker, but I certainly would have!
And I would have spent the next leg of the trip feeling extremely paranoid about that airplane.
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)madaboutharry
(40,183 posts)but I can understand how tired they must have been.
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)Politicalboi
(15,189 posts)It was those Newfoundland Gremlins hoping for tourist to stop by.
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)kestrel91316
(51,666 posts)airport a few years ago on my to WI for Christmas.
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)kestrel91316
(51,666 posts)that only flies the route once or twice a day. The flight out of WI was eventually cancelled because the pilots had been awake too long, and we couldn't get meal or hotel vouchers because it was a weather delay. So we slept on the floor of the terminal, and wandered around being driven stark staring mad by all the noise from the slot machines.
Not one of my better vacations.........
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)kestrel91316
(51,666 posts)I also had a near-24 hr delay 2 years ago trying to get to my niece's wedding in FL via Atlanta during spring storm weather.
gopiscrap
(23,725 posts)not be allowed to get away with. After a few hours all these folks should have gotten hotel rooms and meals!