Key points
- BA35 flight safely landed back on runway at 1.50pm
- Air India 787-8 Dreamliner bound for New Delhi was forced to return to Hong Kong: MailOnline
- Over 290 killed as Air India plane crashed into college hostel
ISLAMABAD: A British Airways flight from London to India had to turn around mid-air when it suffered a “flap failure” – just days after the same model was involved in the Air India disaster that killed all but one passenger, according to MailOnline.
The newspaper reported that the Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner was yesterday less than an hour into its journey from Heathrow to Chennai when a pilot suspected a “technical issue”.
The BA35 flight circled for an hour over the strait of Dover to dump fuel before safely landing back on the runway at 1.50pm, Daily Mail cited Flightradar24 as saying.
Just hours later an Air India 787-8 Dreamliner bound for New Delhi was forced to return to Hong Kong with another suspected “technical issue”.
Air India crash
It will raise further questions about safety concerns as Air India catastrophic crash had killed 241 passengers.
Earlier Reuters reported that more than 290 people, including 241 passengers, were killed when an Air India plane bound for London with 242 people on board crashed onto a medical college hostel minutes after taking off from Ahmedabad, India on Thursday.
The dead included people on the ground as the Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner – headed for Gatwick Airport, south of the British capital – crashed onto a medical college hostel during lunch hour.
Local police confirmed they found one survivor in seat 11A of the flight.
