Passengers to Miss New Year’s Eve After Diverting to Pacific Island

• United Airways passengers will miss celebrating New 12 months’s Eve resulting from a time zone quirk.
• Their flight made an emergency touchdown, leaving them stranded in American Samoa for 21 hours. 
• Some made probably the most of it by ingesting beers with locals, swimming, and exploring the island.

United Airways passengers will miss celebrating New 12 months’s Eve after their flight made an emergency touchdown on a distant Pacific island.

The Guardian first reported the information.

The passengers have been touring from Los Angeles to Sydney on Friday when the Boeing 787-9 plane was compelled to make an emergency touchdown at Pago Pago in American Samoa resulting from a “mechanical difficulty”, in line with the report. 

—AIRLIVE (@airlivenet) December 30, 2022

The vacationers won’t get to rejoice the clock placing midnight on Saturday because the island is simply east of the worldwide date line. A alternative aircraft was resulting from depart at 3.a.m. on December 31, however the time zone quirk means the time can be simply after 4am on Sunday, January 1 shortly after their departure.

The flight was resulting from land in Sydney at 7.15 a.m. on Sunday native time.

Some passengers talked to locals and took a tour of the island, however others complained about how lengthy it took United to ship one other aircraft, The Guardian reported. 

One newlywed passenger tweeted that she is beginning her honeymoon “stranded” in Pago Pago as a result of United could not get them a aircraft “for over 21 hours.”

—Rick Lechtman (@rlechtman) December 31, 2022

Leonie Butta, whose son and two granddaughters have been on the flight, informed the newspaper she’d been monitoring the flight on-line and praised United’s resolution to divert to Pago Pago. 

A passenger’s father tweeted that his daughter showered on the airport hangar, received an island tour and was “ingesting beers on abandoned seaside.” He additionally said: “Daughter on the flight, fairly an adventurous day, they received a tour of the island, pilot purchased them photographs, drank beers on the seaside. Ate at Micky D’s, again on the hangar to relax out on the cots earlier than getting on aircraft at 3am for flight to Sydney.”

United Airways didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark from Insider.