HARRISBURG, Pa. (WHTM) – Passengers aboard an already-delayed American Airlines flight were stuck for nearly three hours at a Pennsylvania airport, until after 3 a.m., because of an equipment malfunction and an apparent lack of airline staff to help the passengers off the flight another way.
“The jetway is not working, and they said there are no stairs and there is no one here to bring us to another gate,” Ellen Tillemans, a passenger aboard American Airlines flight 1549 from Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport to Harrisburg International Airport, emailed Nexstar’s WHTM at 3:03 a.m., which turned out to be moments before she and other passengers finally got off the plane through a rear stairway and walked to the terminal.
But according to a WHTM analysis of FlightAware data, the flight had landed hours earlier, at 12:37 a.m. That, in turn, was nearly two hours after the flight’s original scheduled arrival time of 10:52 p.m…