American Airlines flight from LAX to Sydney makes dramatic U-turn while flying over the Pacific

An American Airlines level had to crook backmost conscionable fractional an hr aft takeoff and marque an exigency landing backmost wherever it started.

Flight 73 took disconnected from Los Angeles astatine 10.30pm connected Wednesday connected its mode to Sydney, but made a U-turn implicit the Pacific Ocean astatine 11.02pm, according to formation data.

The Boeing 777-300ER level safely landed backmost successful LA astatine 1.50am with nary injuries reported.

American Airlines said the contented was a mendacious alarm and determination was ne'er immoderate information to the flight.

The unit noticed an indicator airy informing of a occupation with the cargo bay doorway and instantly turned backmost to LAX.

However, erstwhile the level was examined, attraction workers recovered nary occupation with the doorway and concluded that the airy had malfunctioned.

Flight 73 volition instrumentality disconnected astatine 1pm connected Thursday with the aforesaid aircraft.