{"id":73331,"date":"2025-11-28T16:23:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T16:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/73331\/"},"modified":"2025-11-28T16:23:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T16:23:12","slug":"united-flight-ua803-is-8-hours-late-after-long-diversion-to-san-francisco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/73331\/","title":{"rendered":"United flight UA803 is 8 hours late after long diversion to San Francisco"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>United Airlines flight Boeing 777 diverted to San Francisco before resuming flight to Tokyo.<\/p>\n<p>United Airlines flight UA803, operating from Washington Dulles (IAD) to Tokyo Haneda (HND), faced major disruption on Thursday, November 27, 2025, after the crew made the decision to divert mid-flight.<\/p>\n<p>The Boeing 777-200ER (registration <a href=\"https:\/\/www.airnavradar.com\/data\/registration\/N69020\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">N69020<\/a>) departed Washington as scheduled but, while cruising over Canada, the crew elected to reroute the aircraft to San Francisco International Airport (SFO).<\/p>\n<p>United has not yet disclosed the specific reason for the diversion, but according to our sources, it was a technical issue with the aircraft.<\/p>\n<p>Nine Hours in the Air Before Touching Down in San Francisco<\/p>\n<p>UA803 landed safely in San Francisco approximately nine hours after departure. Passengers had to board another Boeing 777-200.<\/p>\n<p>Following the extended stop, UA803 took off again from SFO, continuing on its long trek across the Pacific. At the time of writing, the flight is en route to Tokyo.<\/p>\n<p>Arrival in Tokyo Expected Eight Hours Late<\/p>\n<p>United Airlines said it expects the flight to arrive in Tokyo roughly eight hours behind schedule, turning what is normally a 13\u201314 hour nonstop service into a nearly 24-hour odyssey for passengers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"United Airlines flight Boeing 777 diverted to San Francisco before resuming flight to Tokyo. United Airlines flight UA803,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":73332,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[42966,101,103,102,104,106,105,4910,42967,42968],"class_list":["post-73331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-n69020","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news","tag-sfo","tag-ua","tag-ua803"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73331\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}