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Old Nov 14, 2015, 2:54 pm
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Originally Posted by alexj7
The 764 5 hour delay wasn't mechanical. It was due to poor ops at SFO. I don't know the specifics why, but the plane landed and was delayed while pulling in to the gate. I suppose it could've been a jet bridge issue.

Anyway that only caused a slight delay. It ballooned to 5 hours when the first officer timed out as we were queued to take off. They had to fly in a new crew from LAS.
It probably would have been faster to fly the 757 to LAS and pick up the new FO there. @:-)
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