[Sarcazmo]

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

[Angelino97]

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

[heavy metal]

kinda like the harris campaign...

[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.

[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

[Vermont Lt]

Straight out of a novel. The possibilities are endless.

[Zack Attack]

Insert “Surely, you can’t be serious?” meme

[AnotherUnixGeek]

If the plane was experiencing technical issues, surely they would not head back to Dallas, right? Surely they’d want to safely land the plane at the nearest reachable airport that had a runway big enough(?) So, assuming it’s not a technical issue, what could possibly justify turning the plane around and flying 5 hours back to Dallas? Pilot couldn’t stop wondering if he closed his garage door when he left for the airport that morning?

[Fido969]

What kind of plane?

[Songcraft]

Boom-Boom Biden was the pilot.   He said, "Where next?", as he turned that bird around.


     

[Jane Long]

Hope one of the pilots didn’t 😵

[Wuli]

You’d tink they could have at least gone back eastward to Seattle, where American Airlines also runs flights to Inchon, Korea, changing passengers to a plane in Seattle, with the total delay being a few hours and not a whole day. You’d think airlines would take such possibillities into its plans and operations.

[The_Media_never_lie]

WAZE said go back.

[WKUHilltopper]

Was the pilot the grand son of “Wrong Way” Corrigan?

[Organic Panic]

A credible threat to the plane. Either man made or mechanical. They aren’t going to announce, “ we are turning around because Achmed planted a bomb in his check in.”

Or it could be a VIP left medicines or golf clubs. Something that was embarrassing to the airline.