Despite spending more than 10 hours in the air, passengers got nowhere near San Francisco.
San Francisco: An Emirates Boeing 777 flying from Dubai to the US on January 19 ended up landing in Russia, thousands of miles away from its destination San Francisco. The aircraft reportedly encountered control problems mid-air. The fight was eventually diverted to St Petersburg in Russia, having changed its requested destination several times along the way. Despite spending more than 10 hours in the air, passengers got nowhere near San Francisco.
Emirates flight EK225 is a regularly scheduled service that originates at the UAE flag carrier’s Dubai International Airport (DXB) hub.
According to a report by The Aviation Herald, while flying over Russia’s Barents Sea, the flight’s crew requested to divert to Murmansk, around 700 NM (1,300 km) away. The request came about after encountering control problems with the 777 operating the flight.
Having set a course for Murmansk, the crew altered their destination to Ekaterinburg. Half an hour later, they changed their decision and aimed for St Petersburg instead. 45 minutes away from the city’s Pulkovo Airport (LED), the pilots declared an emergency, but touched down safely on runway 28L at 18:17, after more than 10 hours in the air.
Major airlines including Emirates canceled US flights due to mega 5G rollout
This comes ahead of the mega 5G rollout in the US with major airlines like Emirates, Air India, ANA and Japan Airlines announcing cancellation of some flights over concerns that it could potentially interfere with some instruments and may put flyers’ safety at risk.
Emirates said it’s “suspending flights to the following US destinations from 19 January 2022 until further notice,” listing Boston, Chicago, Dallas-Fort Worth, Houston, Miami, Newark, Orlando, San Francisco, and Seattle.
The airline will continue to fly to New York JFK, Los Angeles (LAX), and Washington, DC (IAD), reports The Verge.
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Air India will also not be able to operate a number of US-bound flights.
Airline operators in the US warned that the rollout could cause “catastrophic disruption” to their flight schedules.
According to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), the concern is that the C-band 5G signals could interfere with the radar altimeters used in some planes, creating a safety issue.
