Two emergency landings in one day for BA passengers
22.06.11
Passengers flying with BA suffered two emergency landings on the same day, the Daily Record reports. A flight from Gatwick to Malaga suffered mechanical problems just hours after a flight from Glasgow to Gatwick was forced to make an emergency landing. Several passengers were on both flights.
A 10:00 flight from Glasgow, which was carrying 116 passengers, was met by fire engines at Gatwick after it suffered a loss of cabin pressure at 30,000 feet, triggering the release of passenger oxygen masks. Hours later, another BA flight carrying 124 passengers to Malaga developed a landing gear fault 30 minutes after take-off, again causing oxygen masks to fall down and the pilot to return to Gatwick, where several passengers enduring their second emergency landing of the day.
Both aircraft were Boeing 737s. One passenger told the newspaper: ‘To have two emergency landings in a row is worrying. The fact BA did not even apologise to us seems incredible to me. It also draws into question the safety of the aircraft.’
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