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    British Airways passengers’ anger over 9-hour ‘flight to nowhere’ | UK News

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    A British Airways Boeing 777 plane flying in the sky.
    Passengers approached the holiday destination before the plane returned to gray Britain (Image: NurPhoto/Getty)

    A. British Airways Flight Gatwick About five hours into the journey to the holiday paradise, he made a sudden U-turn to the airport.

    Passengers were left disappointed after their flight to BA from the UK’s second busiest airport. Costa Rica had to return Atlantic.

    Boeing 777 aircraft took off London Depart Gatwick on Tuesday morning for the journey to San José, which usually takes 11 hours and 40 minutes non-stop.

    The plane, which took off about half an hour late, took off and the holidaymakers took their seats for the trans-Atlantic journey.


    The map shows where the British Airways flight returned to Gatwick en route to Costa Rica.
    The map shows the point where the British Airways plane had to turn back (Image: Datawrapper)

    But about five hours into the long-haul flight, the plane suddenly turned back over the ocean; This meant that passengers endured hours of flight to nowhere.

    Flightradar24 tracker shows the plane was almost in the middle of the ocean before the incident that forced the pilots to return to the UK; this event was a round trip of approximately 4,000 miles.

    One disgruntled passenger said on social media that the plane made it halfway through the journey before turning back.

    He described the situation as a ‘mess’ and claimed there was ‘no explanation for compensation or another flight’.

    A British Airways spokesman said the plane had a ‘minor technical problem’.

    “We regret the delay in our customers’ travel plans due to a minor technical problem with their aircraft,” they said. Metro.

    ‘Our teams looked after our customers throughout the delay and worked hard to get them back on the road as quickly as possible.’

    The aircraft involved appeared to be scheduled to fly again the next day, according to Flightradar24.

    Arriving just a few days after British Airways All flights from Gatwick canceled to New York until next year.

    The airline said it was halting flights in the coming months until at least next year because it could not find parts for the Rolls-Royce Trent 1000 engines used by the Boeing 787 Dreamliner aircraft.

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