Because they don't know the extent of the damage. Los Angles to
Frankfurt is the great circle across the Arctic which is not the best of
places to discover your airplane is broken.

"Ramapriya" wrote in message
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Robert Easton wrote:
http://cbs2.com/local/local_story_354022709.html


By the way, in such situations, why don't the flights carry on
normally
towards their destination? After all, the landing gear would be needed
again only during touchdown, and the plane would by then have
completed
its journey and burned up most of the fuel too, so many plusses there,
I'd imagine - unless there's something else that isn't obvious to me.

Ramapriya