Uae Aircraft Orbiting Nw Of Ymml

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I was looking at FlightAware (YMML) about 11:40 pm when I noticed this interesting situation. A UAE A388 bound for Dubai orbiting north-west of Melbourne. It did so for quite a while.When I first started watching, ETD461, across the SA border when I took this screenshot, was abeam the UAE orbit. It left the orbit to return to YMML when the ETD flight was abeam Adelaide.

 

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At 00:30, the plane was orbiting Port Phillip Bay to dump fuel. It finally landed at about 1:10 am.

 

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Strangely, no media reports of this incident. Has anyone any idea what caused the flight to return.

 

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