An AUA plane departing from Vienna to Mauritius on Saturday had to make an unscheduled turnaround near Saudi Arabia’s Jeddah region due to an “ungranted overflight permit”.
As the company announced at the APA’s request, there was “general approval” for AUA flight OS17. The plane, a Boeing 777-200ER, landed safely in Vienna around 5:30 am on Sunday morning. The airline explained that the passengers had been rebooked accordingly.
Plane turned over over Jeddah
Data from the online service “Flightradar24” shows that after approximately four and a half hours of flight, at 11:12 PM (0:12 CET), the AUA Boeing flew a U-turn over the Red Sea between Egypt and Saudi Arabia and was gone. back to the north.
As the AeroTelegraph portal reported online, the passengers of flight OS17 were on the road for almost ten hours. The AUA has expressed its regret to the APA for the inconvenience caused to passengers.
Source: Krone
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