Originally published at: Delta passengers spent night in remote Canadian military barracks after plane experienced mechanical problems | Boing Boing
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Delta didn’t force them to spend the night on the plane? Amazing.
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But did they have to turn out for roll call at 6am?
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I know that base. I saw the movie Paul there well over a decade ago. Hopefully the barracks are heated. It’s not warm there this time of year.
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Happy Valley Bay in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador.
I guess that the pilot was ecstatic to find a place to land.
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So, all of the passengers had Come From Away?
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The town is Happy Valley-Goose Bay, and the flight landed at Goose Bay Airport. As @HaroldHill hints, it was one of the airports that hosted US flights when US airspace was closed immediately after 9/11.
The airport was built during WW2 as a refuelling stop for the Canada-Greenland-Iceland-UK air ferry sending warplanes to Britain.
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