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A JetBlue flight to Fort Lauderdale landed in the Bahamas after the Florida airport closed due to extreme flooding
No airports could accommodate the flight, forcing it to divert to the Caribbean where it spent thre…
Bianca Giacobone
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Airlines sometimes turn their planes around and fly thousands of miles home when they have problems. Here's why.
British Airways often chooses to send flights back to London where its easier to reroute passengers…
Pete Syme
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A Virgin Atlantic plane drew a heart-shaped flight path in the sky for Valentine's Day
A Virgin spokeswoman told Business Insider that the plane was headed over Cornwall anyway, so it wa…
Kieran Corcoran
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An airliner flew 8 hours over the Pacific Ocean with a passenger who was on the wrong plane - and Chrissy Teigen live-tweeted the whole incident
All Nippon Airways (ANA) confirms that NH175 scheduled from Los Angeles International (LAX) to Toky…
Benjamin Zhang
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Plane had to make a 650-mile diversion to pick up a crew member for another flight, adding more than 2 hours to the journey
Tui flight from Norwich, England to Corfu, Greece went via Belfast to pick up an extra crew member,…
Ryan Hogg
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A British Airways flight from London to Germany took off in the wrong direction and landed in Scotland, 525 miles away from its destination
"The pilot said he had no idea how it had happened. He said it had never happened before and that t…
Sinéad Baker,Sinéad Baker,Sin…
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'The Flight Attendant' creator says 'it really isn't that hard' to have authentic representation on screen
Mae Martin told Insider that the diverse storytelling on "The Flight Attendant" season two "feels e…
Esme Mazzeo
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A British Airways flight was forced to make an emergency landing after its cockpit windshield 'broke' mid-air, passenger says
Caroline Edmunds tweeted a picture of the Airbus's windshield covered in cracks after landing in At…
Ryan Hogg
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Delta flights from South Africa have been forced to make stops in places like Boston and Puerto Rico because of 'payload' issues
One possibility for the stops is that flights from South Africa to the US may have been more full f…
Thomas Pallini
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Michelle Obama calls out the 'white flight' phenomenon: 'I want to remind white folks that y'all were running from us'
"You were running from us, and you're still running, because we're no different than the immigrant …
Lauren Frias
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British Airways accidentally sent a plane to Scotland instead of Germany - and it turns out flights getting lost is more common than you think
And the investigation into a lost 2015 Air Asia flight found that the pilot "inadvertently" put in …
Sinéad Baker,Sinéad Baker,Sin…
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Massive power outage hits Amsterdam
A Twitter user posted this hectic scene from the airport after flights were cancelled.Flights were …
Dina Spector
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A United Airlines flight was diverted to San Francisco after a passenger made a bomb threat, official says
SFO's duty manager said someone on the flight from LA to Vancouver made some sort of bomb threat, A…
Polly Thompson
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A flight from England to Spain's Canary Islands had to be diverted for police to meet disruptive passengers, easyJet said
EasyJet told Insider in a statement that the September 29 flight was diverted "due to passengers be…
Natalie Musumeci
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A cross-country American Airlines flight was diverted because its bathrooms were unusable
The Airbus A321 took off from San Francisco International Airport at 11:10 am Eastern Time and was …
Mark Matousek
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A Delta flight was forced to make an emergency landing after an engine failure
"The flight crew of Delta flight 1425 from Atlanta to Baltimore elected to divert to Raleigh, N.C. …
David Slotnick
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Passengers flying from Italy to the UK took a detour to northern Africa because the airline had to deliver a part for another plane
Passengers aboard a TUI flight experienced an inconvenient four-hour detour to northern Africa so t…
Joshua Zitser
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Air India may have to pay $8.8 million to passengers because it followed rules
Needless to say, this caused the unwarranted six-hour delay but passenger woes did not end the…