For the second day in a row, a United Airlines flight from San Francisco to Rome was diverted, this time to Canada, because of a medical problem on board the aircraft.
United said in an email to CBS News Bay Area that Flight 507, carrying 265 passengers and 14 crew members, was diverted “to address a passenger medical issue.” Flight tracking data showed the plane departed SFO at 4:49 p.m. PDT on Wednesday, turned northwest of Hudson Bay and retraced its route, landing in Edmonton, Alberta, at 12:15 a.m. MDT on Thursday.
The nature of the medical problem was not disclosed.
The Boeing 777-200 returned to San Francisco, presumably with many of the same passengers who had been diverted to Rome on Tuesday. Your United flight 507 was diverted to Sacramento due to an unspecified mechanical problem and was later returned to SFO.
Flight 507 was canceled for Thursday. United said the passengers diverted on Wednesday would continue on to Rome on United Flight 3035, which was scheduled to depart SFO for Leonardo Da Vinci International Airport at 4:45 p.m. PDT.
