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Delta flight from South Africa to Atlanta diverted to Boston for "technical specifications"
A Delta Airbus 350 (Flight 201) landed at Boston Logan on Sunday November 29, 2021. Flight was scheduled from Johannesburg (JNB) to Atlanta (ATL). The explanation in the news stated the reason for the temporary diversion "has to do with technical specifications of our A350 aircraft and the payload of this particular flight". There was also a crew change as reported. Passengers were not allowed to deplane during the diversion ground time. Does anyone have more specific information on… (www.wcvb.com) Plus d'info...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
Perhaps this is an excellent example as to why US Airlines should be flying the B-747-8i on these extra long-haul flights.
They used to run B777-200 on this route and sold all 18. They still run many B767s. I have been monitoring these flights for a while now and these two are the only diversions I have observed. I will continue to monitor.
The diversion seems to have been planned from the moment of take off as can be seen pretty clearly by my quick visualization:
https://i.imgur.com/xNLPSGv.png
https://i.imgur.com/xNLPSGv.png
Perhaps it was the “flawed pant” issue?
Delta had a novel issue recently on a flight out of somewhere in New York to somewhere else: A woman sitting in 13A was caught breast feeding her cat! Gotta give a shout out to Delta passengers on this one!
On long distance flight the amount of required reserve fuel is huge. One way to reduce this is to dispatch the aircraft at some point short of the original destination, in this case Boston. So at your re-dispatch point you must have a set amount of fuel. If you have it dispatch will re-dispatch the flight to the original destination. If not then the flight lands at your original dispatched airpot, Boston. I've had one flight when the wind were stronger than forecast and we had to land in Chicago rather than our destination, Dallas. Technical Specs.