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"Ok...my tin foil hat may be a little tight but there's definately something fishy with air travel lately.

1.Power outage at ATK
2.Power Outage at New Orleans
3.Something on the order of ten airports in the US and Europe all evacuated 1/1/18 for various weird reasons
4.The flight from LA to Tokyo that turned around half way because of a 'stowaway'
4.Two fights from ATL turn around and return midflight yesterday
This...

All this weirdness in a week?"

You may not be as off the mark as you seem to think.

I know for a fact that in the past two days I heard a report on Fox25 Boston about a plane that had to turn back to its terminal.

(How do I know? Because I was suckered in by one of their "teases": I was about to leave the room when they said "When we come back, why this flight returned to the terminal at Logan." I was interested in the "why," so I waited through the commercial break.) It turned out to be something that officials said was no big deal after all.

So, I was going to add it to your list.

But what happened?

I went to the website for Fox 25 Boston, and used their search function -- powered by Google -- and there was no mention of the incident found when entering either the word "flight" or "Logan."

Furthermore, they provide only ten pages of results. No more.

And the search results are not in chronological order.

The result being, they can show you any results they feel like showing you, and omit any they don't want you to see. And if challenged, can always fall back on plausible deniability: "Well, they're not in chronological order, they are in order of popularity, you understand, and your search just wasn't popular. It wasn't that we didn't show it to you; it just didn't make the top ten pages of search results."

Result: you can't find a recent story about a plane abandoning its flight plan on this website, although you know it was on this website.

And I do believe that is, no accident, nor mere incompetence, but by design.