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TexasTowelie

(120,142 posts) Sat Apr 12, 2025, 01:20 AM Saturday

Nearly 300 passengers stuck on planes overnight - NBC News

Hundreds of passengers on two Delta flights from Mexico were forced to spend the night inside planes on the tarmac of the Montgomery, Alabama, airport after being diverted due to severe weather while no customs staff were available to let them inside the airport. NBC News’ Aaron Gilchrist shares how what was supposed to be a four-hour journey turned into an all-night hassle.

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That would totally freak me out, I can barely sit in those chairs for an hour. Blues Heron Saturday #1

Toilets enid602 Saturday #2

nightmare in a tuna can peacebuzzard Saturday #3

Blues Heron

(6,755 posts)

1. That would totally freak me out, I can barely sit in those chairs for an hour.

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Sat Apr 12, 2025, 01:23 AM

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We are circling the drain here with our disregard for humanity. That just seems to have gone out the window the minute the Bush security state got installed. Now everything is so inhumane at the airport.

enid602

(9,295 posts)

2. Toilets

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Sat Apr 12, 2025, 02:03 AM

Saturday

Sure hope the toilets were working.

peacebuzzard

(5,421 posts)

3. nightmare in a tuna can

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Sat Apr 12, 2025, 05:22 AM

Saturday

yikes...

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