NZ flight in air for 16 hours before returning where it departed

Passengers on a New Zealand flight sure for the United States have spent 16 hours within the air, solely to finish up precisely the place they began.

Flight NZ2 departed Auckland at 7.45pm on path to New York however the airplane was pressured to show round after an influence outage closed terminal one at John F Kennedy International Airport (JFK) in New York late Thursday evening.

It meant the airplane landed again in Auckland 16 hours after it departed.

Passengers had been on the flight for 16 hours after being rotated when on path to New York. (flight tracker)

The flight was scheduled to land in New York at 5.40pm on Friday within the US.

The Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner travelled 14,207km after turning round close to Hawaii within the North Pacific Ocean.

The airport is working with operators to finish repairs, restore energy and resume operations on the terminal.

A restricted reopening is predicted to occur on Saturday within the US.

The outage was attributable to an electrical panel failure that resulted in a “small isolated fire overnight that was immediately extinguished,” in response to the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.

“Terminal 1 represents 5 per cent of all JFK scheduled passenger flights,” John F. Kennedy Airport wrote on Twitter.

“Of today’s 64 scheduled Terminal 1 arrivals and departures, 13 will operate at other JFK terminals, 12 will operate at other local airports, and 39 have been cancelled.”

A flight from New York to Auckland was additionally cancelled, as a result of energy outage.