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Continental imprisons 50 passengers overnight in grounded plane with no food, overflowing toilets
Boing Boing —
... provided as an option by ground services personnel at the airport,'' said Nicholas...
As light began to fill the cabin around 6 a.m., the plane doors opened and passengers were allowed into the airport terminal, Christin said. The airlines gave them one free beverage, he said. By about 9:30 a.m., the passengers were sent back on the same plane they had spent the night in -- which by this time had no functioning restroom. They landed in the Twin Cities about 11 a.m.
47 trapped on 'nightmare' flight to the Twin Cities
(Thanks, Cliff!) ...
Why don't trapped airline passengers Twitter their distress?
bookofjoe —
... , in Minnesota last weekend aboard Continental Express Flight 2816 from Houston, bound for Minneapolis but instead diverted to Rochester to spend the night on the tarmac, I got to wondering why it was that nobody aboard the plane tweeted about the nightmare as it was happening. ...
