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Plane turns around after pilot forgets passport

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Plane turns around after pilot forgets passport​

By Aaron Cooper, CNN
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Updated 9:25 PM EDT, Mon March 24, 2025


United Airlines planes are seen at LAX Airport in Los Angeles in a 2023 file photo.

United Airlines planes are seen at LAX Airport in Los Angeles in a 2023 file photo.
Jakub Porzycki//NurPhoto/Getty Images/FILE

A United Airlines 787 flying from Los Angeles to China had to turn around this weekend after it was discovered one of the pilots had taken off without their passport, the airline told CNN in a statement.

Flight 198 departed LAX at 2 p.m. Saturday with 257 passengers and 13 crew onboard and headed northwest over the Pacific Ocean, bound for Shanghai.

Two hours later, the plane turned around and headed for San Francisco, where it landed around 5 p.m., according to the website FlightAware.

“The pilot did not have their passport onboard,” United said in a statement. “We arranged for a new crew to take our customers to their destination that evening. Customers were provided with meal vouchers and compensation.”

The new crew took off around 9 p.m. and landed in Shanghai about six hours behind schedule.
 
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