A United Airlines flight from Zurich to Chicago O’Hare was forced to make an emergency diversion to Shannon, Ireland, on Saturday afternoon after a passenger got their laptop wedged stuck in a Business Class seat aboard the Boeing 767-300.
United Flight 12 departed Zurich as normal at around 10 am on May 19, but having already passed the west coast of Ireland on its transatlantic routing, the pilots were forced to turn back towards Shannon due to an unexpected technical issue.
After landing safely in Shanoon, engineers are understood to have been able to free the laptop, but by this point, the pilots and flight attendants had already ‘timed out’ and couldn’t legally operate the rest of the flight to Chicago.
As a result, the airline was forced to cancel the flight and is trying to reroute the 157 passengers who were onboard and who found themselves unexpectedly stuck in Ireland.
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