The passengers of a flight of United Airlines, which was diverted to Guz Bay Airport in northeastern Canada, were blocked on their plane for more than 13 hours due to bad weather, according to the state television network CBC.
United Flight 179, which was flying between New York, near New York, and Hong Kong, had to be headed to Guz Bay, New Jersey, and Labrador overnight due to a medical emergency, as reported by company at CBC.
The patient was taken to hospital, but a technical problem prevented the plane from taking off and passengers were forced to remain inside the plane, as there is no customs officer at night at the airport, state television said.
The approximately 250 passengers remained on the plane for more than 13 hours, waiting for the arrival of another aircraft, to travel, as they complained to Canadian television.
One of them, Sonia Dutt, in a telephone conversation, complained that the heating inside the aircraft was not enough and the distribution of food and coffee, after several hours of waiting, was not able to calm the anger of the passengers.
In the area, the mercury had plunged to -30 degrees Celsius and the cold was, as everything shows, the cause of a door breaking, with the result that the aircraft could not leave, according to the APE - BPE.
Much of Canada, especially in the east, was hit by polar temperatures and heavy snowfall this weekend, causing road traffic problems and flight cancellations at the country's airports.