Planes from Heathrow have been stopped from taking off by bees and wasps nesting in vital speed gauges.
The insects got into planes run by BA and Virgin when flights were reduced in the pandemic, the Air Accidents Investigation Branch found after a probe into three incidents at the airport last June.
A BA Airbus A320-232 abandoned take-off after the captain’s speed reading showed as less than the co-pilot’s. An inspection found the pitot probe was blocked with a “solid soil-type material”.
