A Tokyo-bound American Airlines flight from New York City was forced to turn around 12 hours into the exhausting journey — infuriating New Yorkers who then had to spend the night at a cheap motel in Dallas, Texas.

Passengers on an American Airlines flight earlier this week spent more than 12 hours flying without the payoff of landing at their destination of Tokyo, instead finding themselves in North Texas. American Airlines Flight 167 departed from New York's John F.