An American Airlines 787 Dreamliner the registration N819AN (MSN 40637) appeared to repeatedly take off and then change its direction back to its airport throughout January and into February.
The first incident happened on 7th of January. A flight from Amsterdam, Netherlands (AMS/EHAM) to Philadelphia, (PHL/KPHL) USA, ended up lasting only one hour and forty-six minutes after changing its course and flying back to its departing airport, Amsterdam Schiphol, according to data collected by FlightAware. The plane did several circles around North Holland, chopping and changing its direction before flying out into the North Sea, turning around, and then landing back at the airport.
Only three days later, another diversion happened with the same aircraft. On the 10th of January, the American Airlines flight left Philadelphia International at 10.17am for a journey to Dublin, Ireland (DUB/EIDW). Just over an hour into the flight, it turned back to Philadelphia, unable to complete its transatlantic journey. The plane flew over New Jersey and out into the Atlantic Ocean before doing a U-turn back to the airport in Philadelphia.
The unlucky streak continued for the aircraft, with two flights cancelled.
The unlucky streak continued for the aircraft, with two flights cancelled.
AA723 travelling from Dublin (DUB/IEDW) to Philadelphia (PHL/KPHL) on the 13th of January and AA743 travelling from Barcelona, Spain to Philadelphia the day after.
The cause of the cancellations remains unclear, but this was not the end of the Boeing plane's flight turmoil, as two more diversions followed.
On the 18th of January, the plane yet again changed its intended destination of Philadelphia following its departure from Barcelona (BCN/LEBL) just after 2pm spending very little time in the air landing back in Barcelona following only 34 minutes of travel time.
The cause of the cancellations remains unclear, but this was not the end of the Boeing plane's flight turmoil, as two more diversions followed.
On the 18th of January, the plane yet again changed its intended destination of Philadelphia following its departure from Barcelona (BCN/LEBL) just after 2pm spending very little time in the air landing back in Barcelona following only 34 minutes of travel time.
The Boeing jet completed a flight from Barcelona to Dallas Fort Worth, where American Airlines has a maintenance hangar, on the 23rd of January and stayed there for several days.
The most recent diversion occurred on the 1st of February, on a flight from Zurich (ZRH/LSZH), Switzerland, to Philadelphia having departed at 10.39am. It didn't even last an hour in the air and was back at Zurich's airport at 11.24am after circling the airspace near the airport a number of times.
The most recent diversion occurred on the 1st of February, on a flight from Zurich (ZRH/LSZH), Switzerland, to Philadelphia having departed at 10.39am. It didn't even last an hour in the air and was back at Zurich's airport at 11.24am after circling the airspace near the airport a number of times.
In between these diversions and cancellations, there has been many successful completions of flights, such as a recent flight from Zurich to Philadelphia on Wednesday the 5th of February, that left on time and completed its eight-and-a-half-hour flight to the United States.
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