American Airlines flight suddenly turns around after 5 hours — with ‘zero’ explanation: ‘Nine hours later we’re back in Dallas’

New York Post ^ | Sep. 24, 2024 | Ben Cost

[george76]

It was a real flight to nowhere.

Passengers aboard a recent international American Airlines flight were flabbergasted after the plane turned around five hours into the trip — without any explanation.

One of the flummoxed flyers detailed the aerial about-face in a viral Instagram video.

“American Airlines needs a lesson in effective communication,” Jimin Lee, 41, captioned the clip of the incident, which occurred Sept. 7 aboard AA flight 281 from Dallas, Texas, to Seoul, South Korea

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crew members provided “zero explanation” for aborting the flight bound for Incheon International Airport,

[Sarcazmo]

There’s more to this story than they are saying.

[xoxox]

Silence is curious.

[DIRTYSECRET]

Why the point of origination? Probably to save on hotel bills as people who lived there could just go home.

[Angelino97]

"There is nothing to worry about. No mechanical problems. This is just a routine turnaround. It happens all the time."

[pfflier]

There’s more to this story than they are saying.

Yes, sometimes you might find out what you didn't want to know afterwards. Watch Taiwan, closely, They are at their most vulnerable now just before the elections.

[heavy metal]

kinda like the harris campaign...

[dfwgator]

Sum Ting Wong.

[Vision]

“American Airlines needs a lesson in effective communication,” Jimin Lee

Lee isn't the deepest thinker.

[ryderann]

Perhaps there’s something going on at the other end that necessitated the u-turn.

[A strike]

Not so fast Quiksdraw,
AmericanAir will still have to pay big bucks,
I can’t see how they save considering the fuel rather than SEA

[Vaquero]

“I had the lasagna “

[MinorityRepublican]

Maybe they did not have an airport slot.

[OldHarbor]

Was Tulsi on board ? /s

[Ex-Con777]

Perhaps they did make an announcement and, in typical fashion, passengers ignored it or slept through it.

Maybe it was just Jimin that missed it.

EC

[Mean Daddy]

I was on a plane that was hit by lightning. Told a co-worker that I was disappointed the captain didn’t get on the horn and say something. Co-worker made a point that a lighting strike may have set off all kinds of alarms and you wouldn’t want to hear that blaring in the background.

[Michael.SF.]

Five hours from Dallas on the way to Seoul puts them over the Pacific, closer to SFO or LAX then to DFW.

Yup, they are hiding something

[dfwgator]

KAL 007

United States Congressman Larry McDonald from Georgia, who at the time was also the second president of the conservative John Birch Society, was on the flight. Senator Jesse Helms of North Carolina, Senator Steve Symms of Idaho, and Representative Carroll Hubbard of Kentucky (who cancelled his reservations for the trip at the last moment) were aboard sister flight KAL 015, which flew 15 minutes behind KAL 007; they were headed, along with McDonald on KAL 007, to Seoul, South Korea, in order to attend the ceremonies for the thirtieth anniversary of the U.S.–South Korea Mutual Defense Treaty.[19] The Soviets contended former U.S. president Richard Nixon was to have been seated next to Larry McDonald on KAL 007 but that the CIA warned him not to go, according to the New York Post and Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union (TASS); this was denied by Nixon.[20]

[OldHarbor]

Perhaps someone was trying to flee the country ?

[DIRTYSECRET]

**Not so fast Quiksdraw, AmericanAir will still have to pay big bucks,**
I’m thinking of the disabled cruise ship that wouldn’t dock. When you sign up for one you give pall your rights.