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Plane flying from London to New York has to turn back mid-flight because pilot hadn’t finished training

It was on a Virgin Atlantic flight, which was to connect London to New York, that a rather unusual situation occurred. A plane had to turn around after 40 minutes, not because of a problematic passenger, but because of the status of one of the pilots.

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Despite the pilot’s qualification, he had not yet completed what is called “the final evaluation flight”, which completes the training of an airline pilot. It was when they were flying over Ireland that the aircraft backtracked in order to follow the protocol provided by the airline, according to our colleagues from theIndependent.

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