The passengers who reported that a United flight was gushing fuel from a wing at Newark airport didn't get much in the way of a thank you from the beleaguered airline.

Newlyweds Mike and Rachel Brumfield said United gave them only a food voucher but not a hotel room, forcing them to spend the night on the floor at Newark Liberty International Airport.

The Chicago-area couple also accused United of losing their luggage.

United Airlines flight 170 was scheduled to depart Newark for Venice, Italy at 6:55 p.m. on June 13. Those plans were halted when the Brumfelds looked out a window of the 767 and saw

onto the runway.

After the couple informed the flight crew, the plane was emptied and the flight canceled.

The next morning, another passenger put the couple in a limo to John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York to catch an evening Delta flight, NYPost.com said. The cruise the Brumfield's were taking from Venice departed Thursday afternoon.

United described the incident as a "fuel leak," but didn't mention where the leak originated.

The fuel spill was the latest in a series of embarrassing news for United. The most highly publicized took place in April when a doctor was forcibly removed from a plane in Chicago when he refused to give up his seat on an overbooked flight. He later settled his lawsuit against United for an undisclosed amount.

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