JAKARTA – United Airlines’ Boeing 787 jet flying from Los Angeles, United States to Shanghai, China had to turn around after it was discovered that one of its pilots took off without a passport, the airline told CNN in a statement.
The UA 198 flight departed from the Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) at around 2 p.m. Saturday, March 22, with 257 passengers and 13 crew in it and headed northwest across the Pacific Ocean to China’s largest city.
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