A Singapore Airlines A350 bound for Singapore turned back to San Francisco over the Pacific after an unruly passenger, then took off again that night with a fresh crew.
Well done, SQ! (Nice LH-SFO callback, Ben!)
Diverting to Cold Bay would not have been cool
Last year I was on a 16 hour Singapore airlines flight to nowhere, scheduled Singapore to SEA, turned around over Japan due to an engine issue. They determined that flying all the way back to Singapore was necessary, we arrived in the evening, they put us up at the airport crowne plaza and we all flew again the next morning. Apparently an immediate turnaround in Singapore wasn’t possible due to the need to arrive in Seattle when customs was open. I wasn’t thrilled to fly all the way back to Singapore but things were handled smoothly otherwise. Ended up being 31 hours of flight time.