After spending the night in the wonderful state of New Jersey, I flew out on a 10:40AM flight to Detroit. After two hours or so, we approached for a landing and we got within a few hundred feet of the ground before the landing was aborted and the plane pulled up. High winds were the reason given for the abort. It looked like they were going to give it another try, but fuel was running low and the plane was diverted to Cleveland, Ohio. I spent two hours in the terminal, and then another two hours in the plane waiting for permission to land at Detroit. Poor weather plus the backlog of airplanes caused a long delay of six hours over all. I was supposed to arrive at 12:44PM, but ended up landing in Detroit at 6:30PM. It took about 40 hours from takeoff in Beijing to arrival in Detroit.
I’m back now and at least the weather is refreshingly cool.