This international flight had to turn around because the pilot forgot his passport

There are many things that can cause flights to be moved. Whether it’s bad weather, air traffic control issues, or emergency on board, direct lists and so on. And for the most part, they are all understood. However, at the end of March, an aircraft had to turn on his way from Los Angeles to Shanghai, for a very frustrating reason for passengers and a shameful epic for pilots.

Defer CnnThe United Airlines Boeing 787 had to make a U’s turn when one of the aircraft pilots realized they had forgotten their passports at home.

The offense was not found for about two hours to the flight to the Pacific Ocean. When Shuhan, one of the passengers on the flight, told CNN, he heard the pilot come to the intercom to share they had forgotten his passport in a “very disappointed” tone. As soon as the plane made his turn, it was directed to San Francisco, landing about three hours after departing to the same beach.

“The pilot does not have their passports,” United said in a statement shared with various media. “We organized a new crew to take our customers to their destination that evening. Customers are provided with a meal and compensation voucher.”

The 257 passengers then boarded a new flight with a new crew, departing from San Francisco and landing in Shanghai with about a six-hour delay, all of which were quite strong due to such weaknesses.

While food and compensation are good, it is the key to always knowing your rights as a traveler if your flight is moved like this. As United The contract of transportation Explaining, in the event of a Majeure Force event (events outside of its control), “UA without a notice, may cancel, terminate, divert, delay, or postpone any flight, transportation or reservation (either or not confirm) and determine whether departure or landing should be made, without any liability in the UA section.” It adds that it “can restructure passengers on other UA flights or on other carriers or combinations of carriers, or by land transportation, or can repay.”

And as the Department of Transportation previously shared with Travel + free time“As long as passengers are eventually transported to their destination, the department does not see the refund requirements as applying to this diversion.” The right thing happened here. But let this be a lesson for all of us to make sure we are right -to keep track of our travel documents.