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The most common reasons for diverting the trajectory of a flight are adverse weather conditions or the eruption of a volcano. Who does not remember the famous Icelandic Eyjafjallajökull, which turned the skies of the entire world upside down in 2010? But there are other, much weirder causes. From the fall of a coffee on the cabin to the appearance of a fight between passengers or a sudden food poisoning. We discovered them.

For a duck pilot

Divert a flight because the pilot has dropped a coffee over the control of controls. As strange as it sounds, it has not only happened once, but a few. The last one took place a few weeks ago in a plane that covered the route between Hamburg (Germany) and Cancun (Mexico). The airline in question was Condor, of the Thomas Cook group, and the person responsible for the incident, an experienced pilot in command of an Airbus A330-243, who served a coffee without a lid. At least, this is what the report made by the United Kingdom Air Accident Investigation Branch, a country that flew over the plane when the detour to Shannon, in Ireland, points out. According to the report, the control began to "warm up" and fail, while in the cockpit began to smell singed.

Airplane diversions may be due to causes of all kinds.

For fights between passengers

He was going from Sao Paulo to New York , but the American Airlines plane had to stop in Brasilia before the fight of two passengers who refused to remain seated with the belt on despite the crew's instructions. Solution? Disembark them in the Brazilian capital. Discussions on board are the order of the day and also caused the diversion, three years ago, of a Ryanair flight that left Brussels for Malta and had to land in Pisa. And all because a group of people began to punch each other in the hall after starting an argument. The anger caused by excess alcohol also occurs more often than you imagine. One of the most popular: on a flight from Singapore to Sydney. Watch video.

For smelly travelers

That your seat mate smells bad when a transatlantic flight awaits you ahead is bad luck, we recognize it. But that the entire flight stinks, even more. This is what happened with the JetBlue airline, which was forced to divert three of its planes due to the unbearable stench that was on board and the consequent indisposition of crew and passengers. Among the reasons was a gas leak from an engine. There has also been the case of airplanes diverted by the flatulence of one of its passengers. Even a Transavia Airlines plane bound for Amsterdam had to make a forced landing in Faro (Portugal) last year because of the soporific smell of one of the travelers. And that they decided to transfer it to the later ranks. But not even for those ... The rest of the passengers didn't stop complaining.

By the end of the controller's turn

Another unusual reason why a flight can be diverted is due to the closure of the control tower due to the end of the turn of the air traffic controller in charge of supervising it. It happened a few years ago on a flight whose final destination was Carcassonne, in France, but which had to land in the locality also Perpignan gala. The flight suffered a delay that was not notified to the controller of the first population, so when it was time to leave his job , that's what he did.

Conflicts between passengers may arise during the flight.

For landing system failures

With the acronym ILS, the Instrumental Landing System is known internationally , which helps the approach to the runway and subsequent landing established by the International Civil Aviation Organization. But like almost everything in life, it must be updated sometime. And that disconnection of the old model to implement the new was the reason for the diversion or cancellation of 81 commercial flights with origin or destination at the Peinador de Vigo airport . It happened during the spring of last year, so more than 9,000 passengers were affected.

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