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Old May 11, 2018, 12:44 pm
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tarheelnj
 
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Originally Posted by findark
N77295 was flying UA155 MAJ-HNL as the inbound when it turned back and diverted to MAJ due to maintenance. (The flight status inbound is bad with direct flights - the frame showed up in GUM as MNL-GUM.)

The in-flight mechanic gets off in MAJ, so even though I don't think he could fix it while airborne, there was no mechanic onboard at the time

Currently sked to continue on from MAJ at 1315J next day, and should get to HNL by 8pm tonight (presumably just a crew timeout, hope everyone is ok). Looking closely, looks like they had an hour mx delay in MAJ, took off, and diverted after about 45 minutes in the air. Plan was to fix that night and turn around, but crew probably timed out or they couldn't fix at night.
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Forgot about the mechanic deplaning at MAJ. I imagine it would be easy to reach crew timeout, given the end-to-end flight length.
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