Passengers spend 16-hour in flight, but reaches nowhere as plane takes U-turn halfway over Pacific

Passengers of an Air New Zealand flight to New York experienced a rude shock when their trans-Pacific flight made a U-turn halfway, resulting a 16-hour nightmare that brought them back where they started.

Air New Zealand Flight NZ2 departed Auckland Thursday evening but diverted back to Auckland around eight hours into the flight due to a fire incident at the arrival destination at John F. Kennedy International Airport (JKF Airport). The Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner landed back in Auckland at around 1 PM on Friday, spending 16-hours in a flight to nowhere.