Passengers on a Cancun, Mexico-bound flight from Toronto were left stranded for several hours on Saturday after their aircraft made an emergency landing in New Orleans. Local authorities could not host our group at the airport so we had to wait for four hours onboard," Gomez said. Sunwing passengers wait in New Orleans to board a replacement flight to Cancun after their plane was forced to make an emergency landing on Saturday. The plane that suffered mechanical trouble was recently leased by Sunwing from Eastern Airlines, according to publicly available aircraft registration data. Gomez told CBC News that passengers were advised Saturday night that another plane had been sent from Miami to take the more than 250 passengers to Cancun.

Source: CBC News March 31, 2019 02:54 UTC