#flight-diversion

#flight-diversion

Tuesday's Flight 63 took off from Sydney shortly after 10 a.m. and was supposed to arrive in Johannesburg about 14 hours later. All appeared to be going smoothly until nearly five hours into the journey, when the Airbus A380 turned around over the ocean, per Flightradar24 data. It headed back to Australia and touched down in Sydney about nine hours after taking off from there.

A Delta Air Lines plane diverted after an oven caught fire on board, forcing some passengers to wait two days before continuing their journey. Flight 55 took off from Lagos, Nigeria, shortly after noon last Tuesday, headed for Atlanta. However, less than 40 minutes after takeoff, the Airbus A330 U-turned while over Ghana. It descended and landed in Ghana's capital, Accra, just over an hour after first lifting off.

Delta Air Lines Flight 389 took off from Detroit around 10:30 a.m. local time on Saturday and was scheduled to land in Shanghai within 16 hours. However, flight-tracking data shows that nearly five hours into the journey, the Airbus A350 changed course just off the Alaskan coast near Juneau. It rerouted to Los Angeles, around 2,000 miles off course as the crow flies, touching down three and a half hours later.

Two passengers were rushed to the hospital with turbulence-induced injuries after their flight from Colorado to Texas quickly descended more than 4,000 feet in less than a minute. The plane, initially heading from Aspen, Colorado to Houston, Texas on Thursday, was forced to land in Austin due to severe turbulence that resulted in at least one of the aforementioned passengers bonking their head on the ceiling. HE HIT THE CEILING': Two passengers were seriously hurt when a SkyWest flight from Colorado to Houston hit severe turbulence.

Air China passengers spent half a day in Russia waiting for a replacement plane after their flight diverted due to engine trouble. Flight 856 took off from London Heathrow shortly before 11 p.m. local time on Monday, according to Flightradar24. Just over two hours later, it crossed the border into Russian airspace - something many airlines haven't done since the invasion of Ukraine in 2022.

An unruly passenger on Breeze Airways flight 704 disrupted a cross-country journey, yelling racial slurs and waving a skateboard, leading to a diversion.

An Allegiant Air flight diverted to Jacksonville when heavy storms blocked its route as it neared Georgia, leading to a safe landing for passengers.

A Turkish Airlines flight bound for San Francisco was diverted after a passenger died over Greenland, landing at Chicago O'Hare Airport.

Air India stated that Flight AI114 from Birmingham to Delhi was diverted to Riyadh after receiving a bomb threat, landing safely and undergoing security checks.

A United Airlines flight from Honolulu to Los Angeles was diverted back due to a security concern found written in a lavatory, while a Hawaiian Airlines flight experienced a bomb threat, leading to arrests.

The flight diverted after a tablet became 'jammed in a Business Class seat' and showed 'visible signs of deformation,' leading to critical concerns over lithium battery fires.

Air Canada Flight 1702 was diverted to Des Moines after reports of smoke in the cockpit, landing safely around 4 p.m.