Passengers on a United Airlines flight will miss celebrating New Year's Eve due to a time zone quirk.Because the island is so close to the international date line, they are due to leave on 31 December, then cross over to a place where it has already been 1 January for hours.
For more stories,Passengers on a long-haul United Airlines flight will miss celebrating New Year's Eve after their flight made an emergency landing on a remote Pacific island.The passengers were traveling from Los Angeles to Sydney on Friday when the Boeing 787-9 aircraft was forced to make an emergency landing at Pago Pago in American Samoa due to a"mechanical issue", according to the report.
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