Originally Posted by
355F1
Pretty sure he means on a previous OTHER flight.
If so, why should he "hate" telling us? I've flown an aircraft that had previously crashed - in fact, I had four flights on that aircraft over the following dozen years (in addition to the times I flew on her before the accident).
In contrast, this one's just had a routine technical issue. Big deal - I would expect quite a lot of the aircraft I've flown on to have had to return to origin at some stage in their lives.