Summary T'way Air flight TW172 faced safety issues, resulting in an hour-long flight back to Singapore and a 21-hour delay for passengers. T'way Air has experienced previous delays and safety concerns, prompting special inspections and ordered safety measures. The incident with flight TW172 adds to T'way Air's recent history of technical problems, attracting attention from aviation safety authorities.
This story is a first for me, as it started out to be a celebration of T'way Air's first flight from South Korea to Rome, but while researching that one, a more urgent story about T'way Air popped up . Today, a T'way Air flight from Singapore to Seoul departed from Singapore, but within the hour, it was back where it had started, and passengers were looking at a lengthy delay waiting for a replacement aircraft. What happened to flight TW172? According to tracking data from Flightradar24, T'way Air (T'way) flight TW172 departed Singapore Changi Airport on August 11, 2024, at 02:36 for Seoul Incheon International Airport (ICN), where it was scheduled to land at 09:55.
The aircraft was a 2009 Airbus A330-300, registration HL8502 and MSN 1065, which has recently operated routes to Sydney (SYD), Zagreb (ZAG), Sapporo (CTS), Ulaanbaatar (UBN) and Bishkek (FRU). As the map shows, the aircraft never really got going towards Seoul Incheon, flying some sort of holding pattern over Indonesia and Malaysia before returning to Singapore Changi just over one hour after takeoff. South Korean ne.