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Spilled Coffee Cancels Flight


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Contact photographer Charin de Silva

What: United Airlines Boeing 777-200, en route from Chicago O’Hare,IL to Frankfurt/Main
Where: Toronto
When: Jan 3rd 2011
Who: 241 passengers
Why: While en route, the communication and navigation equipment failed, and the flight crew landed at Pearson as a safety measure. According to the FAA, the apparent reason (or a factor as the investigation is continuing) is that the equipment failed after a crew member spilled coffee on it. Additional confusion followed as pilots sent an incorrect code before they sent the “loss of communication” code.

UA sent a plane to ferry the passengers back to Chicago and another flight.

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