@dailymail: An American Airlines flight from New York to Japan was diverted back to the United States despite being 12 hours into its 14 hour journey. Flight 167 departed from John F. Kennedy International Airport at 10:45AM ET on Monday, according to FlightAware. The Boeing aircraft had crossed the entire continental US and was flying over the Pacific Ocean, when the pilots were forced to turn around, reported The Daily Beast. Instead of returning to an airport along the West Coast, the plane flew for another five hours, crossing half of the US, and landed at Dallas Fort Worth International Airport around 10PM CT. American Airlines confirmed to Fox 4 that the diversion was due to a maintenance issue. Read more at DailyMail.com #plane #americanairlines #usa #japan #tokyo #JFK #flight
"due to maintenance issue"... we had to fly an unnecessary 5 hours over land instead of an immediate landing
2025-04-03 09:29:51
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MATTAN :
All the way back to DALLAS? couldn’t they just stop in Seattle or smn 😭
2025-04-03 11:22:06
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😈G👻 :
Something was in the ocean that the Gov didn’t want us to see 👀
2025-05-08 21:59:11
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notyomama :
Maintenance issue? wtf wouldn’t it have been better to go the last 2 hours of the trip instead of another 5 hours?
2025-04-03 09:20:15
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appleuser28974219 :
No way it was a maintenance issue if they didn’t land in Seattle
2025-04-03 09:23:40
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James Carter :
Imagine being 12 hours into a 14-hour flight, only to turn around! I wonder what the maintenance issue was.
2025-04-03 10:40:59
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Canada immigration lawyer 🇨🇦 :
I was a passenger. It was just more than a technical problem b
2025-04-03 09:23:57
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Atomic :
If it was a maintenance issue it wouldn’t of flown halfway back across the country…..
2025-05-09 09:24:26
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𝙅𝙊💲𝙄𝘼𝙃 :
What does this information have to do with us 😭
2025-04-04 01:21:09
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wumao50 :
That math does not add up. If it was 12 hours into its journey then the round-trip flight should’ve been almost 24 hours. But instead, it was barely over 12 hours.
2025-05-07 03:39:40
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Sahbee :
How was it only 5h to backtrack the previous 12h journey? 🙄
2025-04-03 12:54:08
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pb? :
american air did this to me we were 15 hours into the flight going to newzeland and we turned around and flew back for a "medical emergency" when we only had 3 hours till we were there
2025-05-09 04:04:51
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Justin :
The airline flew back to its hub for repairs. Shocked at the amount of context @dailymail constantly leaves out of its reporting.
2025-04-03 10:51:24
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aaronlandrum82 :
Wait……12 hrs into a 14 hr flight….turns around and flys another 5 hrs to DFW….why not just finish the trip…makes ZERO sense
2025-04-04 20:24:36
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Cassie :
they were 12 hrs into a 14 hr flight. 2 left to go. that means they had to go back 6-8 ish hours to hit the west coast, but didn't land there. carried on another 5 to TX. so on the low end, 23ish hrs
2025-04-03 09:35:28
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healyourmind :
I can’t imagine how unbearable I would be for two weeks after this
2025-05-07 02:15:31
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Calhar :
why would you not land at the nearest available runway if you're having maintenance issues in the air?
2025-04-03 10:04:38
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AmNinjaAkg🇺🇸 :
well if an issues wouldn't it want to land at any major airport in cali?
2025-05-09 00:00:24
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Honkledorf :
How is this news 🥀🥀
2025-04-03 10:01:36
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oltsufishh :
Go to LA or Fransisco ❌ Go to Dallas ✅
2025-04-03 20:11:08
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senor_gobbles90 :
would it not have been easier to complete flight to Japan?
2025-04-03 09:32:45
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Just David :
So you’re telling me there wasn’t a closer airport for them to land at to fix the “maintenance issue”
2025-05-09 04:20:30
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