BA passengers suffer two emergency landings in one day
22.06.11
Passengers flying with British Airways suffered two emergency landings in the same day, the Daily Record reports. A 13:35 flight from Gatwick to Malaga was hit by mechanical problems just hours after a flight from Glasgow Airport to Gatwick was forced to make an emergency landing. Several passengers were on both flights, having transferred at Gatwick from the Glasgow service to the Malaga-bound aircraft.
BA's 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, flight BA2714 carrying 124 passengers to Malaga developed a landing gear fault 30 minutes after take-off, again causing oxygen masks to fall down and forcing the pilot to return to Gatwick where several passengers enduring their second emergency landing of the day.
Both aircraft were Boeing 737s and the incidents have led passengers to question whether there were safety issues with the aircraft. One passenger told the newspaper: ‘To have two emergency landings in a row is pretty 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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