Have you ever had your plane diverted to another airport....?

[Kerouactivist]

I had a buddy that had a flight from Europe diverted to somewhere near yellowknife once.....

The wierdest thing thats ever happened to me is on a flight from Pittsburgh to STL that was delayed and finally took off actually flew to the SE enough before turning back west that I could see DC out the window....I thought that was pretty wild.....it was a bad line of thunderstorms...
and we were in an embrarer 170

 

[jagec]

Yup, there was this enormous lightning storm. We ended up being two and a half hours late.

 

[iamwiz82]

Once a flight attendant had a heart attack inflight and we had to be diverted to some little airport with no terminal and next to no ground crew/equipment.

 

[Armitage]

Coming back from Munich to JFK. Somebody slid a 747 off of a runway at JFK the day before, so they were already down one. And it's sleeting/snowing so everything is stacked up. They diverted us all the way to Cleveland. Of course, they didn't have enough customs staff there, so we weren't allowed to pull up to the gate, or even open the door. Of course, there were a few people whose final destination was Cleveland - so they were pretty annoyed at this. I thought one of the guys was going to fake a heart attach - if he didn't stroke out for real first 😛

So, they're talking to JFK control from the ground in Cleveland while we took on fuel. Finally got clearance, but ended up circling for hours anyway. Almost got diverted again. Landed about 9 or 10 hours late IIRC. I was taking a long layover to see my family in PA before continuing on to L.A. Of course, JFK if a godforsaken disaster - and frankly, there were more people who spoke english in the Munich airport. Never did find the company I had my car reservation with - it's now about 0200. A bus from another company pulls up - big rasta guy driving, dreadlocks down to his ass. I ask him if they have any cars - "Ya maan, we got de cars" Ok, let's go.

What a trip.

 

[jadinolf]

On a flight from London to LAX we had to stop for fuel in Great Falls, Montana.

Not allowed to get off the plane because they didn't have customs there.

 

[D1gger]

A few times because the airport I was flying to was fogged in so we were diverted, and once because several people on the plane were smelling fuel. The pilot came back and walked up and down the aisle and he smelled it too, so we did an emergency landing at the nearest airport.

It turned out that one of the passengers had been working in the Alberta oil fields all week and his boots smelled like diesel fuel. He was embarrassed about the whole thing, but most of the passengers just laughed it off and were glad there wasn't really anything wrong with the plane. It cost us about an hour of delay.