Originally Posted by kluau88
Good evening eh morning from the SKL F lounge in SIN. So my journey to Bali takes a twist. UA 895 gets delayed again ex-HKG. No not another mechancial! To sum it up a beligerent passenger and some choice words to some of the crew caused yet another delay. I'll leave it up to your imagination, but local authorities came onboard the aircraft and searched the plane. We finally pushed back at 12:50 AM Sunday and touched down in Singapore at 4:20 AM.
The drama occurred somewhere on the main deck so I'm not sure what happened to the passenger. All I know is they were taking witness statements from other passengers. The captain said safety was his utmost priority whether it meant a delay of 10 minutes or 10 hours. The funny thing was before we were informed of the beligerent passenger we were told we were waiting for connecting passengers and paperwork to be completed. I personally don't think there were any connecting passengers since the original departure time of UA 895 HKG-SIN is 8:00 PM and we were well past 11:30 PM.
Looks like I missed you in HKG last night, I was flying Virgin Atlantic to Sydney and saw that the Singapore and Saigon UA flights were both delayed. I had guessed that ORD-HKG was running late and both flights were held for connections - although the 4 hour delay must have been frustrating for those not on the late inbound.
For those wondering, I am heading back to Asia on Thursday. ;-)