Via Market Watch: A Japan Airlines Boeing 787 flying from Boston to Tokyo Thursday turned around over Canada and flew back to Boston after a warning light came on in the cockpit, according to published reports. The flight had crossed over Quebec and part of Hudson’s Bay before abruptly turning around, based on a flight…
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What happened with the AA Chicago to Helsinki plane and why didn't we hear about it? I will be on that plane in about a month....
@ Linda T -- No clue, but mechanicals/diversions are extremely common. We just don't hear about them unless there's something that can be sensationalized.
Yeah, I've been on a few just in the last few months. And you are right. The media plays up the ones that make for a good news story. If you fly enough, you end up on one or more of these! Just yesterday I was on AA PDX to ORD and I was waiting to see if they would divert after a guy passed out on the flight and was laid across the exit row blocking the aisle for several hours...Never heard a word about it afterwards. That was after the same flight crew had dealt with an unruly passenger on the way to PDX and they needed 3 policemen to escort them off the plane. Never heard a word about that either!
Stuff happens every other flight/ one summer I had folks arrested 9 separate times/ all on flights to from ANC.
@Jorge: Correction... The first 767 went into commercial service in wait for it, 1...9...8...2. Just 3 decades (that's thirty (30)) or so off, but good try.
I actually heard that two of the AA 767s used to be George Washington's AF1. Confirm/deny?