History Of Delta Flight 944

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It was assumed to take 4 hours flight from the Dominican Republic to reach New York for a Delta Air Lines; it took almost 30, the Chicago Tribune states.

And they weren't a friendly 30 hours, either.

"I've never seen an airsick bag used before and many were," one unlucky passenger says that Flight 944 took off Punta Cana on Monday afternoon but had to divert to New Hampshire after huge runway traffic and low fuel stopped it from descending at JFK International, per NBC New York.

Things didn't get any greater in New Hampshire, where the plane had to wait overnight because of laws on how many hours a crew can fly.

Moreover, passengers had to wait 2 hours for customs officials to come from Maine before they could get on the plane, Gothamist

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