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A Hawaiian Airlines flight was delayed for more than 30 hours at John F Kennedy airport due to an odour on the plane.
The flight was initially scheduled to take off at 10am on Tuesday 18 July from the New York City airport to Honolulu, Hawaii, as reported by WNBC-TV. However, according to the passengers on the flight, their trip continued to get pushed back throughout the day, before the plane finally departed 33 hours late.
“Every time they delay it, they don’t give us a real reason for the delay,” Joe Rao, Jr, one of the travellers on the flight, told WNBC-TV. “We learned that there was a malfunction of some kind, a mechanical issue of some kind, that needed to be remedied and they said that the part needed to be flown in from Atlanta, Georgia.”
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