More than 200 British Airways passengers were delayed by 11 hours after stopping unexpectedly twice on the way back of the Caribbean.
Tuesday flight 252 left Nassau in the Bahamas around 10:30 p.m. local time for London.
Four hours later, the Boeing 777 was flying to the North Atlantic when it suddenly turned to the west towards Canada, according to data from Flightradar24.
He turned to Gander International Airport in Newfoundland and Labrador, which is generally housed only small regional planes.
A source familiar with the situation told Business Insider that the plane had to divert due to a medical emergency.
After the customer moved, the flight took off less than three hours later, according to Flightradar24 data.
However, while the flight was again listed as heading to London Heathrow airport, it was in fact gone to Iceland first.
After a flight of about three hours, Boeing 777, 28, landed at Keflavik airport in the capital, Reykjavík.
He has not taken off for more than six hours.
BI understands that because of the first diversion, the driving crew had to exceed their maximum quantity of working hours. British Airways has therefore become creative and organized so that the flight stops in Iceland – where it was easier to send a replacement crew than it would have been in Canada.
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From there, it was still two hours and 20 minutes until the final destination.
The Boeing 777 landed in London around 10:30 p.m. Local time on Wednesday. It was originally to arrive at 11:40 a.m.
It seems that the original pilots and the on -board agents had to stay in Iceland overnight before returning to London.
In medical emergencies like this, pilots generally have no choice but to land at the nearest airport. It is different from certain technical problems when they can return to a hub airport where it is easier to reheath the passengers and the crew.
Entertainment twice is certainly unusual, but it seems that it has finally saved passengers time.
Last May, an Air France flight from Paris to Seattle turned to Nunavut territory in Canada – and had to wait 11 hours for a replacement plane to pick up the passengers.
Earlier this month, Virgin Atlantic’s passengers were delayed 40 hours after a medical emergency forced them to turn to a small airport in Türkiye – where the plane then had to undergo technical inspections.
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