United Airlines Barred From Russian Airspace ‘For Diplomatic Reasons,’ Pilot Announces

Dailycaller.com ^ | 4-12-2017 | Chuck Ross

[Red Badger]

Petty, petty, petty...................

[pierrem15]

Or the Russians are doing something they don’t want seen.

[servo1969]

Sorry, I accidentally left off the second half of the article.

[tuffydoodle]

When you beat your passengers bloody, it even pisses off the Russians. They make you go around.

[JimSEA]

War is very close.

[C210N]

"Then they backed into something at Tokyo airport broke something on the plane!"

No biggy... probably just one of the wings. That's why aircraft have two of them.

[sickoflibs]

“Sir, you are going to have to give up your seat. A UA flight attendant needs to get to .... for her next flight”

[Rebelbase]

Or the Russians are using the passenger beating to damage a US company.

[oh8eleven]

Then they backed into something at Tokyo airport ...
I didn't know planes had "Reverse."

[mass55th]

"Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is also currently in Russia. "

They obviously didn't divert his plane.

[\/\/ayne]

In Russia, passenger beat YOU!

[Verginius Rufus]

Maybe they saw the latest cartoon by Ramirez. They are afraid that passengers might be thrown off overbooked flights while over Russia.

[BlueLancer]

They just didn't want United's bad habits rubbing off on Aeroflot ...

... it's a sad day when the Aeroflot customer service is superior to that of United Airlines ...

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

And we all know how Ivan deals with errant Airliners.

[freedumb2003]

They do.

I landed once at BUR and the pilot overshot the runway. By A LOT (but not as much as the famous plane that went into the gas station across the street).

After we stopped you could hear the engines whine super high and then we backed up to the painted end of the runway.

Note: I was there the night that plane went into the gas station, but going on another flight. Pretty wild.

[dangerdoc]

I didn’t know planes had “Reverse.”

They do now.
http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20120105ptan20120001018.php

[Cementjungle]

United probably dragged some Russian diplomat out of his first class seat to make room for a flight attendant’s second cousin’s friend who decided at the last minute that she wanted to fly from NYC to Bermuda for a quick vacation.

[BlueLancer]

I didn’t know planes had “Reverse.”

I like to think that we can get out of trouble just as fast as we got into it ...

[grania]

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