A trip in the Dreamliner becomes a nightmare

The flight from the New Zealand city of Auckland to New York became a 16-hour ordeal for passengers. Air New Zealand Flight NZ2 was supposed to land at JFK International Airport at 5:40pm on Thursday. But a power outage in Terminal 1 of the airport put an end to the plan.

It ends after 14,000 km

Boeing 787 ‘Dreamliner’ forced to detour due to power outage – in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Flightradar flight-tracking website saw the plane circling 9,000 miles south of Hawaii.

“Due to an electrical fire at JFK Terminal 1 and subsequent terminal closure, the Auckland-New York NZ2 flight has been diverted to Auckland,” Air New Zealand said in a statement. In addition to JFK, New York has four other airports.

Similar incident in January

The airline continued, “Diverting to another US airport would have meant that the plane would have been delayed for several days.” This would have affected a number of other scheduled flights and customers. The airline has promised that it is working to rebook NZ2 passengers on the next available flights.

The resolution gives something to talk about. While some airlines were able to fly into nearby Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey, Air New Zealand may not have identified this airport as an alternative, New Zealand media wrote. “Things”. This may have been due to the fact that there was no landing site available or the pilots were not allowed to land there.

Remember the aborted flight out loud «Bloomberg» Similar incident in January. At that time, the Emirates flight from Dubai to Auckland had to turn back due to floods in New Zealand. For those on board, that meant a 13-hour flight to nowhere. Air New Zealand has had to bring home a total of 9,000 stranded passengers due to the natural disaster.