British Airways BA 2063 turns around

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British Airways BA 2063 turns around

#1 Post by TheGreenAnger » Fri Dec 09, 2022 11:44 am

Hundreds of British Airways passengers spent the night flying from Gatwick to central Egypt and back after their plane turned around halfway through its flight to Mauritius.

The Boeing 777 left Gatwick at 7.38pm on Tuesday night for what should have been a 12-hour, 6,050-mile flight south of the Equator.

The plane flew normally over France, Switzerland, Italy and the Mediterranean before entering Egyptian airspace and flying close to the Nile.

But at around midnight GMT, the aircraft turned around and flew back on almost exactly the same course. The airline later said it was “because of a technical issue”.

Rather than touching down at on the tropical Indian Ocean island of Mauritius on Wednesday morning, the passengers found themselves back at the West Sussex airport at 4.45am
Did Woody leave his specs in the aircraft? I think we should be told! ;)))
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Re: British Airways BA 2063 turns around

#2 Post by Boac » Fri Dec 09, 2022 11:52 am

Cheeseboard not loaded?

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#3 Post by Ex-Ascot » Fri Dec 09, 2022 12:45 pm

Boomerang Airways.
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Re: British Airways BA 2063 turns around

#4 Post by Woody » Fri Dec 09, 2022 1:38 pm

Boac wrote:
Fri Dec 09, 2022 11:52 am
Cheeseboard not loaded?
Unfortunately those days are long gone, but seriously the aircraft was showing a tech fault that would’ve meant going US at destination, so better to return to engineering base for repairs than being stranded in MRU.
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Re: British Airways BA 2063 turns around

#5 Post by G-CPTN » Sat Dec 10, 2022 10:50 am

Woody wrote:
Fri Dec 09, 2022 1:38 pm
a tech fault that would’ve meant going US at destination, so better to return to engineering base for repairs than being stranded in MRU.
Requiring parts and labour to be flown out to 'destination' (at great expense).

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