The midair turnaround comes as Southwest Airlines continues to cancel most flights in the wake of a winter storm over the holiday weekend.
A Southwest Airlines plane lands at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport in November 2021. A Southwest flight from Honolulu to Oakland turned around midair on Tuesday and landed back at Daniel K. Inouye International Airport in Hawaii after a"conflict" broke out between two customers in the passenger cabin.was forced back to Hawaii's Daniel K. Inouye International Airport after a"conflict" broke out between two passengers, according to an airline spokesperson.
The airline declined to give additional details about the dispute, instead referring SFGATE to the Honolulu Police Department, which did not respond to a request for clarification in time for publication. The roughly five-hour flight was rescheduled to depart from Honolulu at 2:45 p.m. Hawaii Standard Time on Wednesday, with a scheduled landing time in Oakland of 8:05 p.m. Hawaii Standard Time.
shows that Southwest Flight 2050 took off from Honolulu on Tuesday just before 5 p.m. local time and turned around an hour and 46 minutes later, landing back in Honolulu at 8:36 p.m.
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