Air France with long return to departure point

Technical issues force return flight to Hartsfield-Jackson Airport

ATLANTA (CBS46) - An Air France flight bound for Paris from Atlanta was forced to return to Hartsfield-Jackson Airport after the plane experienced technical issues.


The flight was en route to Paris and made it as far as Nova Scotia before the flight returned to Atlanta.

The flight landed around 3:45 a.m. at Hartsfield-Jackson Airport.

Betty York was a passenger aboard the plane. She says she wasn't happy when she heard the flight had to return to Atlanta.

"I took an Air France plane supposedly to Paris. It got as far as Boston, turned around did not tell anybody what had happened," says York. "They finally said after they served us a nice meal, and said we're going back to Atlanta, we can't cross the ocean. Now they've turned us loose, they've given us vouchers. There are no shuttles for the vouchers. We have no idea how we're going to Paris because that's where we want to go."

It is unclear exactly what caused Flight 689 to return to Atlanta.

CBS46 has placed a call to officials at Air France but no information has been given at this time.

Passengers on the flight were put up in hotels. They will be booked on other flights Friday morning.