A JetBlue flight to Fort Lauderdale landed in the Bahamas after the Florida airport closed due to extreme flooding

• A JetBlue flight from Newark, New Jersey to Fort Lauderdale, Florida was diverted to the Bahamas on April 12.
• After three hours in Nassau, the plane went back to Newark, some nine hours after it first left the airport.
• Fort Lauderdale airport had shut down because of heavy rain and flooding. 

Passengers on a flight to Florida ended up in the Bahamas instead.