More than 200 passengers and crew were forced to spend an impromptu weekend in freezing temperatures on a Canadian island after a United Airlines flight travelling from New York to Ireland was unexpectedly diverted.
United Flight 23 departed Newark Liberty Airport on Thursday 13 February just after 8pm, but around three hours into the six-hour flight, the plane made a wide U-turn and diverted its course to St. John’s International Airport in Canada’s Newfoundland and Labrador province.
