DL216 - February 21st 2018 - What's going on?
Feb 21, 2018, 6:15 am
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DL216 - February 21st 2018 - What's going on?
My friend's brother is currently on DL216 (DKR-JFK). About 2.5h into the flight, they dropped to 10,000 and turned around. They are now apparently headed back to DKR. Does anybody know what is going on with this flight? The crew has been silent so far. I figure it is probably an issue with the pressurization of the cabin but there are many other plausible reasons one can imagine.
Feb 21, 2018, 6:56 am
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My friend's brother is currently on DL216 (DKR-JFK). About 2.5h into the flight, they dropped to 10,000 and turned around. They are now apparently headed back to DKR. Does anybody know what is going on with this flight? The crew has been silent so far. I figure it is probably an issue with the pressurization of the cabin but there are many other plausible reasons one can imagine.
Feb 21, 2018, 7:11 am
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Join Date: Jan 2001
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Its strange that both flightaware and flightradar24 do not show turn around and instead show some bogus location (I assume projection of flight path based on elapsed time), but delta.com show turn around and 10,000ft altitude.
Did they lose a transponder?
Is it really a 757 doing 9 hour DSS-JFK?
Did they lose a transponder?
Is it really a 757 doing 9 hour DSS-JFK?
Feb 21, 2018, 8:05 am
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Feb 21, 2018, 8:08 am
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you'd hope not..
Last edited by jeet; Feb 21, 2018 at 8:11 am Reason: added