UA179 - 16 hours on the ground in freezing Canada

[rock86]

This would suck & it still has't landed back at EWR (my screenshot below)!!!

Passengers on a United Airlines flight have had the flight from hell, being stranded on a runway in Canada for over 16 hours overnight.

Temperatures outside dropped close to -30C, as the wait went on.

United Flight 179 had been heading from New York to Hong Kong when it had to divert to Goose Bay in Canada for a medical emergency three-and-a-half hours into the flight, it then went mechanical while on the ground.

More here What's Worse Than Flying United to Hong Kong? Sitting on United Over 16 Hours and Going Nowhere - View from the Wing

 

[Mattg]

Ouch. I bet after around the 10th hour on the ground in Goose Bay, some of the passengers might have wished United would drag them off the plane!

 

[UP4014]

Wow, surprised there wasn't a riot.

 

[Quickstatus]

Ahh Canada. Should have rung their celebrity PM and claimed asylum.