{"id":80056,"date":"2025-07-21T07:29:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T07:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/80056\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T07:29:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T07:29:09","slug":"flight-heads-back-to-paris-after-being-denied-landing-clearance-in-chicago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/80056\/","title":{"rendered":"Flight heads back to Paris after being denied landing clearance in Chicago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CHICAGO (WKRC) &#8211; A flight headed back to Paris after being denied landing clearance in Chicago.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/30\/air-france-flight-denied-clearance-by-chicago\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/30\/air-france-flight-denied-clearance-by-chicago\/\" class=\"themeColorForLinks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">According to AviationA2Z, <\/a>an Air France transatlantic flight to Chicago, Illinois headed back to Paris, France after a near seven-hour journey to nowhere. <\/p>\n<p>The outlet, citing <a href=\"https:\/\/airlive.net\/tracking\/2025\/06\/29\/air-france-af136-bound-for-chicago-made-u-turn-over-atlantic-due-to-clearance-issues\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/airlive.net\/tracking\/2025\/06\/29\/air-france-af136-bound-for-chicago-made-u-turn-over-atlantic-due-to-clearance-issues\/\" class=\"themeColorForLinks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">AIRLIVE<\/a>, reported that Flight AF136 was reportedly denied landing clearance at Chicago O&#8217;Hare airport, which prompted the crew to reverse course mid-flight.<\/p>\n<p>FlightRadar24 data shows that the plane took off from Paris at 12:49 p.m. on Saturday, June 28 and turned around over the Atlantic Ocean while between Iceland and Greenland.<\/p>\n<p>The flight had already completed half of its journey when the crew redirected the flight to its point of origin, per the outlet.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/airlive.net\/tracking\/2025\/06\/29\/air-france-af136-bound-for-chicago-made-u-turn-over-atlantic-due-to-clearance-issues\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/airlive.net\/tracking\/2025\/06\/29\/air-france-af136-bound-for-chicago-made-u-turn-over-atlantic-due-to-clearance-issues\/\" class=\"themeColorForLinks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">A passenger speaking to AIRLIVE <\/a>said the decision was made after the flight failed to receive landing authorization at Chicago O&#8217;Hare Airport, with Air France later confirming that the decision was made for &#8220;operational reasons,&#8221; although the company did not elaborate further.<\/p>\n<p>The flight safely landed back in Paris around six hours and 37 minutes after departure, per AviationA2Z. A substitute service departed from Paris to Chicago on Sunday, June 29, the outlet reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHICAGO (WKRC) &#8211; A flight headed back to Paris after being denied landing clearance in Chicago. According to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":80057,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5124],"tags":[54990,960,19032,5386,1818,54989,36081,54992,3715,54991],"class_list":{"0":"post-80056","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago","8":"tag-air-france","9":"tag-chicago","10":"tag-flight","11":"tag-il","12":"tag-illinois","13":"tag-landing-clearance","14":"tag-ohare","15":"tag-operational-reasons","16":"tag-paris","17":"tag-transatlantic"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114890051700491637","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80056\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}