I was part of the aircrew of that flight. To cut a long story short, there was no talk of flying a part out from the east coast and keeping the pax on board. The initial problem was trying to uplift fuel. The engineers kept trying to source the problem, but had to troubleshoot.It could have been a 30 sec job if found. Then a second tech prob occured. Blah blah blah, but the end of the day, contrary to popular belief, the pax were fine, happy and were taken care of. They were all given a room , the crew had hotel rest and the flight departed that night.
There you have it.
