Passengers spend two nights sleeping in chapel after flight gets diverted

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Passengers spent two nights sleeping in a church after their flight was diverted to Christchurch on New Zealand’s South Island.

Air New Zealand flight NZ971 from Tonga was due to touch down in the Kiwi city of Auckland on the North Island on 27 January, but was forced to divert 800km south due to Auckland’s runway being flooded.