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Lufthansa plane was delayed 8 hours after it diverted twice
on Tuesday’s Lufthansa flight was eight hours delayed due to two diversions following a medical emergency and the crew reached their time limit, according to reports.
According to information from flight tracking website Flightradar24, the Boeing 747’s trip from Buenos Aires, Argentina, to Frankfurt, Germany, required two additional landings and took 21 hours as opposed to 13 hours.
A medical problem on board forced the aircraft to turn around and land at Natal in Brazil over five hours into the flight, according to a Lufthansa representative. The emergency occurred just off the northern coast of Brazil near the equator.
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When safety regulations meant that the Lufthansa crew was approaching the maximum time restriction on duty, it was stated that the plane continued across the Atlantic Ocean. The jet had to land at Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris, less than an hour’s flight from Frankfurt, to change the crew.
The Lufthansa aircraft finally touched down in Frankfurt after a nearly 24-hour trip, which was already lengthy.
