Disruption was caused on a United Airlines flight running the Los Angeles – Shanghai route as the pilot found in the air that he did not have the passport of the resulting in reversal.
“On Saturday, the UNITED 198 flight from Los Angeles to Shanghai landed at San Francisco International Airport because the pilot had not taken his passport with him,” said United Airlines in the US airline at AFP.
The plane had taken off nearly two hours agowhen he was forced to reverses To land in San Francisco, California, and 257 passengers estimated that they would land after more than 13 hours of flight to the other side of the world.
On social media, many passengers expressed the their anger.
“The UA198 flight changed the course to SFO (San Francisco International Airport) because the pilot forgot his passport? Now we have stuck for more than six hours. Absolutely unacceptable. @united, what compensation do you offer for this destructive management? “, The passenger Passenger Sinh Kalra wrote on X (formerly twitter).
In response, the company said that ‘Ensured that a new crew’ It will transport the passengers to their destination, stressing that it will pay them compensation.
This is not the first time a flight has had a problem because its pilot has forgotten his passport.
In 2019, a flight that had started from Vietnam, was delayed for 11 hours because the commander had lost his identification documents. Therefore, he could not enter the airport.