United Airlines passengers stranded for 8 hours on runway in Australia — mashable.com

Passengers on a United Airlines flight to Sydney, Australia, from San Francisco were stranded on a tarmac in Canberra because of runway debris at Sydney Airport. Flight UA863 spent eight hours in Canberra — an approximately three-hour drive from Sydney — with passengers stranded on the runway because customs and immigration regulations prohibited them from entering the airport. The journey, from California Wednesday night to Sydney Friday evening, took a total of 20 hours.

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