New Zealand-bound aircraft flies 13 hours solely to land the place it took off

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Passengers on an Emirates flight sure for Auckland, New Zealand that left Dubai Friday morning ended up touchdown again on the identical airport the place it took off a bit of greater than 13 hours later. 

Flight EK448 departed at 10:30 a.m. native time and the pilot circled practically midway into the virtually 9,000-mile journey, touchdown again in Dubai simply after midnight Saturday, in line with FlightAware and Enterprise Insider. 

Auckland Airport was pressured to shut at the beginning of the weekend because of extreme flooding. 

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Emirates flight EK448 flew for 13 hours earlier than turning round and touchdown again in Dubai early Saturday morning native time.  (iStock / iStock)

“Auckland Airport has been assessing the injury to our worldwide terminal and sadly decided that no worldwide flights can function immediately,” the airport stated in an announcement on Saturday afternoon native time. “We all know that is extraordinarily irritating however the security of passengers is our high precedence.”

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On Saturday evening native time, after home flights resumed, airport officers stated that worldwide flights would resume Sunday morning.

Emirates stated in an announcement to Enterprise Insider, “We remorse the inconvenience brought on to prospects. Emirates will proceed to observe the scenario in Auckland and difficulty updates the place required.”

A digger is submerged in a flooded development website within the Wynyard Quarter the morning after document heavy rain on January 28, 2023 in Auckland, New Zealand.  (Photograph by Lynn Grieveson/Getty Photographs / Getty Photographs)

The airline didn’t instantly reply to Fox Information Digital’s request for remark. 

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Flight 448 was rescheduled for Saturday Dubai time and was because of arrive in Auckland Sunday afternoon native time.