Speedbird 103 Problem?

[Scott C]

Hi all,

I was just standing outside my house and noticed a BA 767 flying over - it's not a sight I see very often as we're not typically under any major flightpaths for BA.

Being unusal, I had a quick look at Flight Radar and saw it was turning back to LHR sqawking 7700.

Anyone know what's going on? Just curious...

[lomapaseo]

why in this forum????

[meadowrun]

And why not land at MAN if critical? Fuel perhaps...


Nopes..something screwy going on somewhere.


http://flightaware.com/live/flight/BAW103

[ExXB]

BA flight in emergency landing at Heathrow

A British Airways flight to Canada was forced to return to London yesterday after the crew saw smoke in the cockpit.

The crew of Flight 103 to Calgary requested a priority landing at Heathrow and returned safely, said an airline spokeswoman.

All passengers disembarked normally from the 767-300, she added.

Engineers are inspecting the plane.

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[Blacksheep]

Smoke in cockpit? Why not Manchester indeed?

Scenario. BA 103 turns back, flies over Heathrow and across Europe and Middle East for eight hours before vanishing in the Indian Ocean. . .

[Lone_Ranger]

You don't fly back across the country in a cockpit smoke incident.
Something else happened.

[Rossian]

I'm sure I've said it before....

.....shirley this sort of thing REALLY belongs with the spotters in Rumours and News, not in the rarefied halls of Jet Blast??.

The Ancient Mariner

[PPRuneUser136030]

You called Rossian?
http://www.pprune.org/spectators-bal...hr-7700-a.html
Per