Newark United Flight Grounded for 14 Hours in Below Zero Temperatures in Canada With 250 Passengers On Board
At a Glance Passengers on a United Airlines flight spent 14 hours grounded in frigid temperatures this weekend.Flight 179 from Newark to Hong Kong was forced to land in Newfoundland due to a medical emergency.Temperatures dropped to -26 degrees as passengers sat in the plane on the tarmac overnight.The passengers weren't allowed to leave the plane because there were no customs officers on site. Passengers flying from Newark, New Jersey, to Hong Kong were stuck on a frigid airport tarmac...