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MarcJF

27th Jun 2015 08:09

Kuwait Airlines Turns Around

Breaking news on Sky, looks like it's coming into Heathrow, not nearest airport?

PC767

27th Jun 2015 08:17

If nothing else it's interesting. It came into LHR without an emergency transponder code and according to FR24 it was over Frankfurt when it turned back.

Wrong airport for a hijack, lots of suitable places to land for an emergency. Do Kuwait have an engineering base in LHR? Most likely explanation. (For now at least.)

TOWTEAMBASE

27th Jun 2015 08:27

Kuwait Airlines Turns Around

Spot on PC id say. STN and PIK are designators in the UK for hostile flights. This is all off the back of the attacks yesterday. Every in flight emergency will be a "threat" for the next few weeks !!!

pull-up-terrain

27th Jun 2015 08:51

Supposedly the plane has 6 passengers who have fell ill from food poisoning.

boeingbus2002

27th Jun 2015 08:53

Medical emergency. Nothing hostile.

boeingbus2002

27th Jun 2015 08:54

One pax too.

crewmeal

27th Jun 2015 10:11

If it had been anything major then it would have been diverted to Stansted where the authorities are always on the ready.

Wanabee,Gunnabee,Am

27th Jun 2015 10:12

But why London, why not Frankfurt, or Zurich, or Munich or.........

Why fly an hour and a half back the way you came.

Also looks like United from BRU to Chicago (UA973) is in the process of diverting too. Heading south over York, maybe towards STN???

Is there something going on that the authorities are covering up?? Armed forces day and all that!!!!

maggot738

27th Jun 2015 10:35

UA973 is over Watford so looks like he's heading into Heathrow

Twiglet1

27th Jun 2015 10:38

Kuwait Airlines Turns Around

As the NHS is free? ......

GAPSTER

27th Jun 2015 10:49

Senior First Officer????
Really!!!!

brakedwell

27th Jun 2015 10:57

Somebody forgot to reclaim their VAT :}

OPENDOOR

27th Jun 2015 10:58

UA973 now at Heathrow. Two flights, coincidence?

Wanabee,Gunnabee,Am

27th Jun 2015 13:17

Quote:

GAPSTER

Senior First Officer????
Really!!!!

and your point is?

Trossie

27th Jun 2015 13:42

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Is there something going on that the authorities are covering up??

Oh boy!! Where do they come from? Let's see what cr@p the conspiracy theorists come up with next!

Twiglet & brakedwell, nice ones!

Hotel Tango

27th Jun 2015 14:01

For goodness sake! Dozens of aircraft divert every day for one reason or another. Most are medical diversions. Some are technical but not to the extent that they have to divert to the nearest airport. Technical problems can be of a nature which, for a variety of reasons already explained many times on these forums, requires the aircraft to return to it's base airport, departure airport or an airport where they have engineers and spares at hand.

Wanabee,Gunnabee,Am

27th Jun 2015 14:06

Neither conspiracy theorist nor ostrich. One sentence does not make someone either.

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Hotel Tango
For goodness sake! Dozens of aircraft divert every day for one reason or another. Most are medical diversions. Some are technical but not to the extent that they have to divert to the nearest airport. Technical problems can be of a nature which, for a variety of reasons already explained many times on these forums, requires the aircraft to return to it's base airport, departure airport or an airport where they have engineers and spares at hand.

But aren't we talking about a medical emergency here, not a base airport, departure airport, or an airport where they need engineers or spares. It also appears that Kuwait Airlines flys to and from FRA anyway. I only asked why London, and is what rhetorical, as I'm sure that you, nor anyone on here, doesn't have the answer.

GT3	27th Jun 2015 18:12

Perhaps Kuwaiti had a crew ready to fly the aircraft onwards to Kuwait today from LHR? A divert may have put the original crew out of hours, sensible to divert to an airport that has the same type operating there?

Hotel Tango

27th Jun 2015 18:54

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But aren't we talking about a medical emergency here

Sure, but there are also different types and levels of medical emergencies. There may have been a doctor (or doctors) on board who will have kept the captain informed. Subject to that information he (together with OPS) will have taken a decision which on balance best served all concerned.

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