Grounded: 250 passengers stuck on a cold plane for 16 hours

250 unlucky passengers and crew were stuck on a grounded plane for 16 hours over the weekend in Canada. Their flight from Newark, New Jersey to Hong Kong was diverted to a military base, after a medical emergency.

Source: CNN Twitter

The United Airlines plane then encountered a problem with an emergency exit door which took hours to repair.

But the passengers, other than the person taken to hospital, were not allowed to leave the plane because the airport at the military base in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador didn't have a customs officer on duty.

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