Residents watch as BA flight to New York forced into London emergency landing (From Your Local Guardian)
A jumbo jet forced into an emergency landing was spied flying "alarmingly low" over the skies of south London this morning.
Residents have described how they were woken by the "deafening noise" of the British Airways jet holding 296 passengers heading back in to Heathrow just after 9.30am.
She said: "I heard a plane coming but suddenly it was much louder than usual. I rushed out and saw it and it was alarmingly low in the sky.
"You could see it was a British Airways flight. That's how close it was."
Rowena To, from Wimbledon Park, said: "We heard this deafening noise. We ran to the window . Everyone was watching from the other houses and other people had gone into the street.
"The level that it was flying, everyone was really worried about what might be happening."