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A transatlantic The American Airlines flight was divertedAnd the passengers were transported by bus, after the carrier apparently sent a plane too large for its destination.

Monday flight 780 left Philadelphia at 7:42 p.m. and was supposed to land in Naples, Italy, at 10 a.m. local time.

However, the data from Flightradar24 show how seven hours later, the Boeing 787-9 Suddenly turned to the Tyrrhenian sea, west of the Italian continent.

It was only about 70 miles from Naples International Airport before turning north to Rome Fiumicino airport.

A American airlines The spokesman told Business Insider that the flight had diverted due to “operational limitations”.

Historical flight data shows that the airline generally sends a Boeing 787-8 to flights to Naples.

While these two Dreamliner The variants are quite similar, with the same scale, the 787-9 is actually 20 feet more.

Documents De Boeing and the International Organization for Civil Aviation show how it means that the two planes have different requirements for rescue and combat services (RFF).

The 787-8 is small enough to land at an airport with an RFFS in category 8, but the 787-9 needs an RFFS airport in category 9.

Aviationweek Aviationweek data indicate that Naples airport is a matter of the old classification.

The aviation enthusiast @xjonnyc, who shared the incident for the first time on X, reported that the airport administration said that planes 787-9 could not land in Naples.

The authorities of Naples and Rome airport did not immediately respond to requests for comments sent by BI outside of Italian work hours.

After landing at Rome Fimicino airport around 9:45 a.m., the passengers were transported to Naples by bus, the airline spokesman for BI said.

“We apologize to this disruption of their trip,” they added.

The two airports are around 145 miles from there, which would take more than two hours.

Meanwhile, the 787-9 left Rome two and a half hours later, operating flight 111 to Chicago, by Flightradar24.

It was not the only time this week that a diversion forced passengers to travel the rest of their bus trip.

Wednesday, a Ryanair’s flight diverted after a thunderstorm caused serious turbulence This injured eight people, three of whom were taken to a local hospital.

The passengers were placed on a bus in Memmingen, Germany, Milan, a trip of about four and a half hours.

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