One Friday the 13th, bad luck led to an act of kindness. United flight 2480 (UA2480) took off from San Francisco at 1:01 p.m.
on Sept. 13 and was scheduled to land a little after 7 p.m.
in Houston, Texas. Then, things took a turn mid-air. “I had noticed that there were no flight attendants, they all went in the back for whatever reason,” Tanya Stamos, a passenger on the flight, tells TODAY.
com. “That was before the captain said anything. I was like, ‘Huh, that’s kind of odd.
’” Stamos says the captain eventually got on the loudspeaker and asked for help from any medical professionals who may have been on board. Some time after those volunteers disappeared into the back of the plane, the captain got back on the intercom to say that there would be an emergency landing in New Mexico. “The plane just kind of diverted,” she says.
“Really, you could tell we’re going in for a quick landing.” According to stats from FlightAware, to Albuquerque International Sunport and landed at 4:15 p.m.
Stamos says an ambulance was there to meet the plane when it landed, and a passenger was rushed off before the rest of the passengers were deplaned. The emergency landing resulted in a delay, which then pushed some UA2480 crew members over the maximum shift hours allowed by the Federal Aviation Administration. So, legally, Stamos and the rest of the passengers had to wait for a new group of flight attendants before they could get to their final destination.
“There was a flig.