Emergency landing prompts United Airlines pilot to order dinner for 150 passengers

A level afloat of passengers was forced to marque an exigency landing, delaying their accomplishment by 7 hours, but a motion from the aviator whitethorn person made the concern not truthful bad. 

Tanya Stamos, a 44-year-old United States Navy seasoned from Woodlands, Texas, said she was precocious flying from San Francisco to Houston connected a United Airlines formation erstwhile things took a turn. 

Stamos told Fox News Digital that the nonstop flight was scheduled to get successful Houston astatine 7:00 p.m., but the formation had to marque an exigency landing soon aft takeoff.

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"Not agelong into our flight, the skipper had travel connected and asked if determination were immoderate healthcare professionals, [and] if so, delight fto the formation attendant cognize and caput to the backmost of the plane," she said via email.

Tanya Stamos (pictured here) told Fox News Digital that the saccharine motion from the aviator made the time not excessively terrible.  (Tanya Stamos)

Stamos said that aft learning that a antheral had passed retired and collapsed successful the bathroom, they were told by the aviator that the level would beryllium making an exigency landing successful Albuquerque, New Mexico, to question aesculapian assistance for the passenger.

Around 3:30 p.m., the formation landed successful New Mexico wherever the rider was taken disconnected the level by aesculapian officials. 

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"The aviator past gets connected and says they are going to refurbish the aesculapian instrumentality that was used, and we volition beryllium departing by 5:00 p.m.," Stamos said. 

However, a abbreviated clip later, the passengers were asked to exit the level and were not fixed an mentation arsenic to why, Stamos said.

The aviator (pictured here) told passengers that helium would marque definite their bellies were full.  (Tanya Stamos)

Stamos said she and chap passengers walked into the New Mexico airport and learned that they would person to hold for a caller formation unit to committee the plane.

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"After sitting determination for a mates hours trying to fig retired what was going connected and the skipper to find different formation attendants to service america truthful we would not beryllium stuck determination overnight, it was adjacent 7:30 p.m. oregon so," she said.

Stamos said United Airlines gave passengers a $15 nutrient voucher, but the airdrome restaurants and nutrient options were closed by then. 

Due to the different eating establishments being closed successful the terminal, the aviator had 30 pizzas delivered for his passengers.  (iStock)

The aviator ended up taking matters into his ain hands and ordered pizza.

"The skipper said it was a truly disheartening situation, and we whitethorn beryllium tired, but helium would marque definite helium personally got our bellies full," Stamos said. 

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Stamos said 30 pizzas for the 150 passengers showed up to the gross and everyone was "completely shocked."

The United Airlines aviator proceeded to assistance walk retired pizza to the 150 passengers successful New Mexico.  (Tanya Stamos)

"Most organizations bash not spell supra and beyond, but that skipper did not hesitate," she said, adding, "His show that evening is what we should person much of: selfless acts of love, compassion and humanity."

Stamos said caller formation attendants arrived, and the formation was capable to instrumentality disconnected astatine 11:00 p.m. The level safely landed successful Houston astatine 2:00 a.m. the adjacent morning. 

She said the aviator stood astatine the beforehand of the craft upon deplaning successful Houston to convey the passengers for being patient. 

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"As it was my crook to exit the plane, I shook his manus and thanked him," she said, adding, "Everyone down maine past followed suit and shook his manus arsenic well."

A United Airlines aviator connected a diverted formation ordered pizza for each 150 passengers aft a agelong time of travel. The aviator aboriginal stood successful beforehand of the level to convey the passengers and shook their hands. (iStock;Tanya Stamos)

Stamos said, "It was a beauteous sight."

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A typical from United Airlines told Fox News Digital that the institution "loves to spot our pilots going supra and beyond for our customers erstwhile the unexpected happens."