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Old Dec 31, 2017, 3:54 pm
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I certainly believe Flight Aware and Delta’s statements on flight time and crew response over a random and likely oblivious passenger quoted in the article.
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Old Dec 31, 2017, 4:06 pm
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Originally Posted by Tom45
Total flight time was just 34 minutes.

https://flightaware.com/live/flight/...510Z/KDTW/KDTW

The web article said "shortly after takeoff", while they quoted a passenger saying “literally an hour into the flight”. That passenger must have been chronologically challenged.
If I read it correctly they returned to DTW twice because they couldn’t find the bird the first time. So both statements could be correct.

ETA - after re-reading I see that they were aware of it prior to takeoff and that’s when the unsuccessful search happened so only one division. Sorry!
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Old Jan 1, 2018, 12:04 pm
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Originally Posted by pvn
Pretty much everyone who is flying is chronologically challenged. People routinely post here about how a single person taking their shoes off in the pre-check lane delayed everyone by 10 minutes when the reality is it's more like 20 seconds at the most.
Not those that have and know how to use at watch.
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