Originally Posted by
GRALISTAIR
Weird that usually flies over Chinese and Russian airspace and then close to the north pole and over Canada to DTW. To me SEA is not a logical divert point.
http://flightaware.com/live/flight/D...125Z/RKSI/KSEA
Per flightaware looks like the flight was on a more southerly course today. The flight was southeast of ANC when the aircraft made a right turn towards SEA. Gonna guess that the cause for diversion was not determined to be an immediate threat and that SEA provided the best options for both MX and passenger re-accommodation. The aircraft was only the ground 2 hours at SEA before continuing on to DTW.
EDIT:
Originally Posted by
DLMiddleSeats
Original delay was sick crew member. My guess from there is the existing crew didn't have enough hours left to get to DTW. So a semi planned SEA stop to pick up new a crew
Ah never mind - makes sense.