Missing authorization
AUA plane to Mauritius had to turn around
An AUA aircraft from Vienna to Mauritius that took off on Saturday had to make an unscheduled turnaround at the level of the Jeddah region in Saudi Arabia due to an "overflight permit that was not granted".
As the company informed APA on request, the AUA flight OS17 had "general permission". The aircraft, a Boeing 777-200ER, landed safely in Vienna at around 5.30 a.m. on Sunday morning. The passengers were rebooked accordingly, the airline explained further.
Plane turned around over Jeddah
Data from the online service "Flightradar24" shows that the AUA Boeing made a U-turn over the Red Sea between Egypt and Saudi Arabia at 23:12 (0:12 CET) after a flight time of around four and a half hours and headed north again.
As the AeroTelegraph online portal reported, the passengers of flight OS17 had been on the road for almost ten hours. AUA expressed its regret to APA for the inconvenience caused to the passengers.
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Liebe Leserin, lieber Leser,
die Kommentarfunktion steht Ihnen ab 6 Uhr wieder wie gewohnt zur Verfügung.
Mit freundlichen Grüßen
das krone.at-Team
