Why are passengers on the United Airlines flight to Hong Kong forced to transfer midway?

65438+ 10 6 A United Airlines passenger plane originally scheduled to fly from Chicago to Hong Kong on Thursday (4th) had to be diverted to Anchorage Airport in Alaska because a passenger smeared excrement on two toilets. No one was injured in the incident. The FBI said that there was no indication that the incident was related to terrorism.

According to the Chicago Sun, the police at Anchorage Airport said that when a male passenger used the toilet on a United Airlines flight from Chicago to Hong Kong on the 4th, he not only made a mess of the two toilets on board, but even took off his shirt and put it in the toilet to try to flush it away with feces, which made the two toilets on board unusable. Therefore, the captain of the flight temporarily decided to transfer to Anchorage Airport in Alaska, and the man was taken off the plane by law enforcement officers.

The flight landed at Anchorage Airport at 6: 30 pm Alaska time, about 8 hours after the flight took off. Law enforcement officers immediately boarded the plane and took the man away. The police said that the man was sitting in his seat naked and showed more cooperation. He was taken to the hospital for mental evaluation, and the police said that he was not charged because he did not influence the pilot. The police also said that the man had a Vietnamese passport and an American green card, but he was vague when asked, and even the translator couldn't understand what he was saying.

United Airlines said in a statement on Friday (5th) that there were 245 passengers on the flight. The airline has provided hotel accommodation for the affected passengers and will continue its journey from Anchorage again on Friday. According to the data, the flight involved took off from O 'Hare International Airport on Thursday afternoon 1: 47 Chicago time and was originally scheduled to arrive at 7: 20 Hong Kong time on Friday evening. After the incident, it was cancelled.