Emirates Incident
Emirates B777-300 Incident leading to diversion
An Emirates fleet of Boeing 777-300 with registration A6-EBQ and performing flight EK-210 from Newark,NJ (USA) to Athens (Greece). The flight was enroute at FL330 about 100nm east of St. John's,NL (Canada) about to enter Oceanic Airspace when the crew decided to turn around and divert to Boston,MA (USA) while reporting an equipment failure. The aircraft descended to FL320 for the diversion and landed safely on Boston's runway 04R about 3 hours after the decision to divert advising tower no assistance was needed.
After confirming a technical fault by the airline, passengers were rebooked as well.
The aircraft is still on the ground in Boston about 53 hours after landing.
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