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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Travel
Benjamin Parker

British Airways flight forced to turn back after ‘burning smell’ makes cabin crew ‘dizzy’

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A British Airways flight was forced to make a U-turn after only 35 minutes in the air after a “burning smell” reportedly filled the cabin.

The plane had departed Johannesburg, South Africa, on Wednesday and was bound for London Heathrow before it turned around in what the Aviation Herald, a website that logs aviation incidents, described as a “fume event”.

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