The United Airlines aircraft, which departed from Los Angeles global Airport to China, had to turn around for a amazing reason. During the flight, it turned out that 1 of the pilots forgot to take a valid document.
The device has taken off from LA on Saturday at 24.00 with 257 passengers and 13 crew members on board. As planned, the plane headed northwest, intersecting Pacific Ocean on the way to Shanghai. The journey was to take about 13.5 hours.
The pilot forgot his passport. The plane must have turned around.
Data from FlightAware, a worldwide flight position monitoring platform, revealed that after 2 hours of launch, the aircraft turned around and landed at 5 p.m. San Francisco.
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"The pilot did not carry a passport", CNN said, quoting a message United Airlines.
“We organized a fresh crew that took our customers to their destination that evening. Passengers received $15 meal vouchers and compensation," explained the airline.
The fresh crew took off around 9:00 p.m., and the plane landed in Shanghai from around Six hours late.
The pilot lost his passport. Flight delayed by 11 hours
The Independent diary recalled that It's not the first case.when the flight was disrupted due to the deficiency of adequate pilot documents.
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In 2019, flying aircraft from Vietnam to South Korea He delayed by 11 hours due to the fact that the T’way Air pilot lost his passport.
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