The journey should have taken a few hours, but the craft finally touched down after a few minutes. This Monday, an EasyJet flight surprised its passengers by announcing that it had to land, less than half an hour after taking off. A change of program explained by the forgetting of the technical control of the plane, before takeoff.
Flight EJU4565, which was to connect Paris to Palermo, Sicily, “had to return to Paris Charles de Gaulle (CDG) after takeoff”, and “landed safely”, confirms EasyJet to Figaro. The plane therefore returned to the tarmac “to carry out a technical inspection”, according to the airline, “and the passengers were able to disembark in the terminal”. It stayed in the air long enough to make a loop a little larger than the Paris region, as shown by FlightRadar24.
The flight, supposed to leave Paris-Charles de Gaulle airport at 12:50 p.m. and arrive in Italy at 3:15 p.m., was finally “able to reach Palermo at the end of the afternoon the same day”. The EasyJet teams present at the airport distributed “refreshment vouchers of 9 euros” to passengers, and “did their best to keep them regularly informed”. Despite this inconvenience, the company wants to be reassuring, and affirms that “the safety and well-being of our passengers and our crews are the absolute priority”. The airline “operates its aircraft fleet in strict accordance with manufacturers’ guidelines,” she says.
