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
British Airways BA 2063 turns around
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British Airways BA 2063 turns around
My necessaries are embark'd: farewell. Adieu! I have too grieved a heart to take a tedious leave.
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Cheeseboard not loaded?
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Boomerang Airways.
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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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