Air New Zealand’s passengers take 16-hour flight to nowhere

Bloomberg

Passengers boarding a trans-Pacific flight from Auckland to New York 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, but a power outage threw operations into disarray, affecting at least 135 flights into and out of the city.
Data from Flightradar24’s website showed the Boeing 787 jet making a U-turn about halfway into its nearly 9,000-mile (14,000 kilometre) journey over the Pacific Ocean, just south of Hawaii. The turnaround made the jet the top-tracked flight on the site, which monitors aircraft all over the world in real time.