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Air Canada plane turned back midway through a Christmas Eve flight to Maui for "maintenance reasons"

n Air Canada flight traveling from Vancouver to Hawaii turned around mid-trip on Christmas Eve.

Flight AC535 was about halfway through the route on Monday morning to Maui when the plane returned to its destination.

"A Boeing 737 with 167 passengers on board returned to Vancouver for maintenance reasons due to a hydraulic indication. We arranged the transfer of passengers to another aircraft to get them on their way to their final destinations as soon as possible. The decision to return to Vancouver was made for maintenance reasons only due to a hydraulic indication and was not an emergency," an Air Canada Director of Media Relations Isabelle Arthur told Newsweek.

"We provided customers with discounts for future travel, offered free meals during the flight and had buffet snacks and meals at the gate before departure of the flight."

Arthur said that passengers were delayed by about 11 hours.

Passengers were disgruntled at the delay, according to CTV News. Rahuo Amelkarn expressed displeasure "how on Christmas Eve, we had to turn back … and waste our entire day."

Founder of Air Passenger Rights Dr. Gabor Lukacs said that individuals who were on the flight could receive thousands of dollars in damages if they could prove losses.

"They are liable for up to $8,700" under the country's Carriage by Air Act if they can demonstrate they lost money for travel or rental alterations, Lukacs said.

http://www.newsweek.com/air-canada-flight-turns-back-christmas-eve-1271513

Sixty years ago today, on 3 February 1959, Buddy Holly’s bass player Waylon Jennings uttered seven words that would haunt him for the rest of his life.

His band, led by rock’n’roll wunderkind Holly, had just played a rollicking show in Iowa as part of their Winter Dance Party tour. “Even though it was a Monday night,” Jennings later recalled, “it seemed like half the town’s teenagers had turned out.”

But Holly was fed up. Tired of the freezing cold, constantly malfunctioning tour bus, and desperate to avoid the 400-mile road trip to their next stop, he booked a private plane to Minnesota instead. Jennings was supposed to join him, but at the last minute gave his seat to “The Big Bopper”, who was on the same tour and suffering from a bad case of the flu. When Holly found out, he was teasingly aggrieved. “I hope your damned bus freezes up again,” he joked to his friend. “Well,” shot back Jennings, “I hope your ol’ plane crashes.”

That “ol’ plane” did crash, just a few minutes after it took off. On board were three renowned musicians – 22-year-old Buddy Holly, 17-year-old Ritchie Valens (who won his seat on a coin toss with Tommy Allsup), and 28-year-old J P “The Big Bopper” Richardson Jr – as well as the pilot, 21-year-old Roger Peterson. Holly and Valens were thrown from the plane’s torn fuselage. Richardson was flung into a neighbouring cornfield. Peterson became entangled in the wreckage. None of them survived.

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/features/the-day-the-music-died-buddy-holly-plane-crash-60-big-bopper-ritchie-valens-american-pie-jennings-a8758626.html

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On this day in 1870, the Fifteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States was ratified, guaranteeing the right to vote regardless of race and intending to ensure, with the Fourteenth Amendment, the civil rights of former slaves.

https://www.britannica.com/on-this-day

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3 February 1913

Sixteenth Amendment, amendment (1913) to the Constitution of the United States permitting a federal income tax.

3 February 1917

Not yet involved in World War I, the United States broke off diplomatic relations with Germany after the Germans announced their intention to practice unrestricted submarine warfare.

2/3/1865 In a personal meeting with Confederate representatives, U.S. President Abraham Lincoln offered liberal pardons in exchange for the South quitting the Civil War, with reunion as a precondition of peace—an offer that was rejected.