I posted a perfectly sensible thread here earlier about a flight that diverted to Boston, now for some reason beyond belief the thread was moved to Jetblast, and merged into a non aviation thread???
Makes no sense at all???
Now Diversions Due To Flu......
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I know this flu business is not good, and may get much worse, but surely this is a bit over the top?
Particularly in this case, after flying all that way, it would not have taken much longer to continue on as planned to DC, rather than arrange a diversion and land in Boston.
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United Airlines B772 near Boston on May 1st 2009, flumergency
May 1st 2009 21:17Z
A United Airlines Boeing 777-200, registration N778UA performing flight UA-903 from Munich (Germany) to Washington Dulles,DC (USA) with 245 passengers and 14 crew, diverted to Boston,MA (USA) after a female passenger showed flu-like symptons.
The passenger was taken to hospital, the airplane continued its journey after two hours on the ground and reached Washington with a delay of 2 hours.
Authorities are currently very sensitive to flu like symptons due to a developing swine influenza of pandemic proportions. The World Health Organisation has declared the second highest pandemy alert level 5 after the first infection outside of Mexico has become known, signalling that the WHO believes in a global outbreak of the swine flu.