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Air Canada 80-minute flight to nowhere blamed on baggage door issue (2024)

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The plane left Vancouver International Airport at 9 p.m. and returned there an hour and 20 minutes later. Its planned trip to Portland typically takes just over an hour

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Chris Knight

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An 80-minute Air Canada flight from Vancouver to Portland became an 80-minute flight from Vancouver to Vancouver on Sunday night, after the de Havilland Dash 8-400 twin-turboprop aircraft went into a series of looping turns, eventually settling back at the airport from which it had originally taken off.