British Airways BA 2063 turns around
Posted: Fri Dec 09, 2022 11:44 am
Did Woody leave his specs in the aircraft? I think we should be told!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
