90 Minute Flight Takes 48 Hours

May 30th, 2006 | By Jared Blank

If you enjoy reports of flights gone awry, this is a pretty good one. This article has the details, but in short, a 90 minute trip in the UK took 48 hours, involved five aborted landings, a cancellation, an unscheduled stop at another airport and more than 2,000 miles. And a tortoise sanctuary.

Enjoy.

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Plamen Bobokov October 4th, 2007 10:55 am :
Hi!I would like to check flight from Doneck(Ukraine) to Varna(bulgaria) or Doneck(Ukraine) to Buharest (Romania) for 12.10.2007,bissnes class.We prefer time:from Doneck-14-15 pm.,Varna-17-18 pm.Thanks a lot :)

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