Originally Posted by nz_crew

There were a couple of hour-late departures in the past week, but nothing as late as 2321, 2313, or 2305. The times don't really match up at all, so I suspect flightaware.com may have some screwy data.

The two flights that were late were both 747s (some days of the week NZ5 is a 777) which may be due to unscheduled maintenance on one of our 744 or even the untimely death of one of our 747 training captains . In my experience NZ5 doesn't generally have major delays, as the aircraft is parked at LAX for betwen 6-12 hours and any required maintenance is performed at that time.