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If you enjoyed this post, please follow us here or on social media through Facebook, Twitter or Instagram for more travel tips and hacks on how to “Upgrade Your Travels”. For other parts of the trip, please see this index. For more information on how this trip was booked, please see our trip introduction here. This trip was redeemed through Air Canada’s Aeroplan and through Starwood Preferred Guest (Marriott Bonvoy) and Hyatt Gold Passport. This post is one chapter on our trip to South Africa, a Safari in the Maasai Mara in Kenya and Mauritius. The other passengers on the original routing to Sao Paulo were taking a 5 PM departure, whereas we had to get back to the airport for an 11 AM departure. The downside of our re-booking, was that we had to get up early to take another positioning flight to get to our overseas one. We were re-booked to travel to Johannesburg on South African Airways via Dakar Senegal. USA TODAY staff contributed to this report.Our previous plans of flying to South Africa via Sao Paulo Brazil on United Airlines Business First were scuttled thanks to the cancellation of our Chicago – Sao Paulo flight. Passenger Jesus Esparza told KENS-TV in San Antonio he saw lightning and hail and the plane dropped "like a rollercoaster." He gave a sickness bag to another passenger who had already used one. He said the engines, including the fan blades, were not damaged. The damaged aircraft was an Airbus A319 aircraft, according to flight tracking site .Īnother plane finished the trip to Phoenix a few hours later.Īn airline spokesman said Monday that the plane was awaiting repairs for damage to the nose, windshield panels and a cockpit side window.
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There were 130 passengers and five crew members on board, identified by WFAA TV as American Airlines Flight 1897. The airline says no injuries were reported after the Sunday night flight from San Antonio to Phoenix ran into bad weather over New Mexico and turned south and diverted to El Paso. One of the pilots said they could barely see through the windshield. DALLAS (AP) - An American Airlines plane made an emergency landing after hail damaged the windshield and caused some passengers to throw up.
