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Today (Thursday, November 10, 2022),
a Boeing 777 was scheduled to operate Emirates flight EK209 from Athens to Newark.
The flight departed as planned, and for the first 90 minutes operated the standard routing.
While flying over Sardinia, the plane entered an extended holding pattern.
Eventually the 777 started to fly back toward Athens.
However, it didn’t take the same routing back.
Instead the plane exclusively flew over water rather than land, which caused a significant detour.
Furthermore, as the plane approached Greece, it was escorted by fighter jets. In the end the plane landed back in Athens roughly 4hr20min after takeoff.
From the moment it entered national airspace, Flight EK 209,
carrying 228 passengers and 18 crew members,
was accompanied by two F16s of the Greek Air Force,
which took off at 21:09 GMT from the Souda base.
The Emirates plane was 120 miles southwest of Kalamata
when the fighter jets were ordered to take off. NATO gave the order.