Plane forced to turn back just two hours into journey after passenger loses phone

A plane was forced to return home two hours into its journey after a passenger lost their phone mid-flight, The Standard reported.

Air France flight AF750 was last Friday set to travel from Paris to Pointe-a-Pitre in Guadeloupe — a French archipelago in the Caribbean Sea — in what should have taken 9 hours.

But the aircraft’s pilot was forced to turn its 375 passengers and 12 crew members back to France around a quarter of the way into the 4,200-mile trip.

According to AirPlusNews, the Air France flight was ordered back to Paris as a safety precaution after a passenger said they lost their mobile phone.

Having departed from Paris Orly Airport at 12pm local time, FlightRadar24 data revealed that the Boeing 777 looped off the west coast of France before making the U-turn.

After returning to Paris Orly at 3.25pm that day, flight AF750 took off for Guadeloupe 20 minutes later.

AirPlusNews reported that the incident came a month after the same plane was made to turn back after a holidaymaker dropped their phone into an air vent ‘and ended up in an inaccessible area'.