ST. LOUIS — Company officials say a United Airlines Express flight headed to Chicago had to return to St. Louis as a precaution because of a screening issue.
GoJet Airlines, the regional carrier that operated Flight 7445, had a problem with its computers Friday morning, and had to use a manual system to check in passengers.
A spokesman for Trans State Holdings, which owns GoJet, says the computers started working again after the flight took off from Lambert-St. Louis International Airport. That's when the airline learned the name of one of the passengers on the flight matched a name on the Transportation Security Administration's restricted passenger list.
The Trans State Holdings spokesman, Fred Oxley, says the flight returned around 8 a.m. as a precaution, and took off again around 9:30 a.m. after the airline determined the passenger was not the same person on the list.
The plane later landed in Chicago.
Thanks for the update. I’ve been wondering about that one.
I’m still thinking about the post about the plane having to return because computers were not working and they did a manual check-in only to find out when the plane had already taken off that a name on the restricted list was on-board.
Why didn’t they use the destination computers to check-in passenger? Is that not possible?
Shall we ask Napolitano or TSA?