United Flight to Chicago Delayed Nearly 4 Hours After Flight Attendants Reportedly Get into Disagreement

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• A reported “disagreement” between two United flight attendants brought on a practically four-hour airplane delay on Monday

• United Airlines flight 2138 was set to depart Des Moines, Iowa, for Chicago at 11:26 a.m. local time, but didn’t depart until 3:24 p.m.

• Passengers reportedly deplaned as a outcome of the incident

Passengers making ready to fly out of Des Moines, Iowa, on Monday had been met with a four-hour delay after a reported incident between two flight attendants transpired on board.

The scenario occurred on Monday, Oct. 27, as United Airlines flight UA 2138 was making ready to depart Des Moines International Airport. According to FlightConscious, the Airbus A320 was initially scheduled to take off at 11:26 a.m. local time, but didn’t depart for Chicago O’Hare International Airport until 3:24 p.m.

In inside information reviewed by Paddle Your Own Kanoo and One Mile at a Time, United cited the explanation for the delay as a “disagreement” between two crew members.

“Crew availability flight attendant: disagreement on 2 of the [flight attendants.] [Inflight duty manager] pulling all crew and will need to recrew flight,” the log famous.

A subsequent message at 12:08 p.m. confirmed the plane was deplaned.

After re-crewing, the flight ultimately left, practically 4 hours after its scheduled departure time. The plane landed at 5:09 p.m. in Chicago, 4 hours and 12 minutes late, according to FlightConscious.

A consultant for United declined to remark on the matter after PEOPLE’s request.

Earlier this month, a Delta Air Lines flight attendant brought on delays after unintentionally deploying an emergency slide at an arrival gate.

The mishap occurred on Saturday, Oct. 25, on flight 3248 from Pittsburgh, Penn., to Salt Lake City, Utah, according to a Delta spokesperson.

“While the aircraft door was being opened, crew inadvertently deployed an emergency slide at the arrival gate in PIT,” a spokesperson said in a assertion. “As a result, customers on the return flight from PIT to SLC were rebooked on other Delta flights to their destination later that evening or the following morning.”

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Data from Flightradar24 confirmed the plane departed nearly 4 hours late, taking off at 9:21 p.m. instead of the initially scheduled 5:30 p.m. takeoff. It later landed at 11:12 p.m., over three hours late.

Passengers had been reportedly caught on board until engineers had been ready to manually detach the chute, which took about an hour, per the New York Post.

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