A spate of powerful thunderstorms forced a commercial airplane to keep circling two airports until it began running dangerously low on fuel. The American Airlines aircraft was slated to head to Blue Grass Airport in Lexington, Kentucky, from Dallas-Fort Worth International in Texas. The grim weather set in just as it was headed toward its destination, and it redirected to Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport, also in Kentucky, instead. The storms followed the plane, however, and forced it to miss two approaches to Louisville on two separate runways. By the time it finally landed at Evansville Regional, an altogether different airport over in Indiana, the crew had warned ground control that they only had around a half hour of flying left in the tank. The three-pass flyaround was then followed by a further final leg to Louisville after refueling and waiting out the weather—bringing the presumably rather disoriented passengers to their originally intended destination after an overall delay of more than three hours.
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