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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Travel
Simon Calder

British Airways plane makes U-turn four hours into journey due to ‘technical issue’

Simon Calder

Hundreds of British Airways passengers spent the night flying from Gatwick to central Egypt and back after their plane turned around halfway through its flight to Mauritius.

The Boeing 777 left Gatwick at 7.38pm on Tuesday night for what should have been a 12-hour, 6,050-mile flight south of the Equator.

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