ROUGH CUT (NO REPORTER NARRATION) Passengers on a United Airlines flight were back on the ground in New Jersey on Sunday after they were stranded on a tarmac at a frigid Canadian military base for more than 15 hours.

The flight, headed to Hong Kong, had to make an emergency landing at Goose Bay Airport in Newfoundland after a passenger got sick.

Temperatures dipped to minus-25 degrees.

Passengers were forced to spend the night on the plane.