Passengers on horror American Airlines flight say aircraft began ‘dropping in altitude’ before it made dramatic U-turn back to LAX [Video]

21:06 EDT 26 Oct 2024, updated 21:14 EDT 26 Oct 2024

Passengers were left in uproar after ‘horrendous’ American Airlines flight that made a dramatic U-turn mid-journey as they battled ‘unhelpful’ staff to find out information.

Flight 73 took off from Los Angeles at 10.30pm on Wednesday on its way to Sydney before turning back around over the Pacific Ocean at 11.02pm, according to flight data.

Travelers said they had no warning when the plane turned around, and even the flight attendants had no idea what was going on. 

‘My wife and I were on this flight, it was horrendous,’ Australian passenger Chad Randall told DailyMail.com.

‘Just as they were serving the last people on the back of the plane, we noticed on the screen the plane had turned around.

‘Then all of a sudden it started dropping in altitude, no word from flight deck or anything. It was scary.’