Passengers left stranded for 17 hours after flight diverted due to unbelievably selfish act: ‘Everybody was fed up’
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Their dreams of a smooth flight went up in smoke. Passengers were stranded in a “warzone” at a Maine airport for over 17 hours after their flight was diverted due to a pair of butt-huffing bozos puffing cigarettes on board. “Everybody was fed up,” UK native Terry Lawrance, 66, told Southwest News Service of the unplanned layover, which occurred July 8 on a TUI Airways flight from Cancun, Mexico, to London, UK. The aircraft had been flying for about an hour when the pilot came on the intercom and announced...
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