{"id":200023,"date":"2025-04-14T18:00:15","date_gmt":"2025-04-14T08:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/long-haul-air-france-flight-turn-around-2-hours\/"},"modified":"2025-04-14T18:00:15","modified_gmt":"2025-04-14T08:00:15","slug":"why-did-this-long-haul-air-france-flight-turn-around-just-2-hours-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=200023","title":{"rendered":"Why Did This Long-Haul Air France Flight Turn Around Just 2 Hours In?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In an era where air travel has become increasingly efficient and reliable, it is uncommon for long-haul flights to deviate significantly from their planned routes. However, on March 21, 2025, <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/air-france\/\" >Air France<\/a> Flight AF750, en route from Paris Orly Airport to Pointe-\u00e0-Pitre in Guadeloupe, made an unexpected return to its departure point merely two hours into its journey. The reason? A passenger&#8217;s lost mobile phone. This incident underscores the critical importance of safety protocols concerning electronic devices on aircraft, particularly those powered by lithium-ion batteries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hint: it was all because of a phone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1719,4491,396,9397,13240],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-200023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-air-france","category-air-safety","category-aircraft","category-cabin-fire","category-commercial-aviation"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=200023"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":200024,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200023\/revisions\/200024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=200023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=200023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=200023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}