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AA holds passengers hostage in airplane for 9 hours
something awful in the air wrote:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16565583/ It's interesting that the media is printing this almost two weeks after the event. There were a couple of articles with more detail when it happened, such as: http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/07009/752402-84.stm http://tinyurl.com/ycfrfe http://tinyurl.com/yf669f One international flight, from Europe, was diverted to Tulsa, OK, where there are no Immigration or Customs facilities, plus the crew could not continue in service because they were over their allowed hours. The passengers had to wait on the aircraft for ten hours, until it could fly to Dallas, which meant they were on the aircraft for a total of 22 hours by they time they got to Dallas. After Northwest's episode in Detroit a couple of years ago, that airline put a voluntary limit of 3 hours on keeping passengers on grounded aircraft. You'd think that American would have learned something from that, and reviewed their own policies before now. A friend was on one of the affected flights that day, and had an amusing story to tell. They were diverted from DFW to Abilene, TX, and after a few hours, the pilot took it unto himself to call a couple of local pizza places to order food and drink for the passengers, using his debit card for payment. The company that issued the card became suspicious about a large order for pizzas from two restaurants in Abilene, enough to feed a full 737, and called the pilot's wife at home to check if the charges were legitimate. She said of course not, that her husband was in San Jose, so the payment approval was rejected. Things were eventually sorted out, but only with one of the restaurants. At least the passengers got something to eat. |
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