Incident on Glasgow flight to be probed

AN INQUIRY is under way into an incident last month in which a British Airways plane with more than 100 passengers on board had to return to Heathrow Airport.

The cockpit crew of the Glasgow-bound Airbus A321 on 20 December flight donned oxygen masks and decided to turn back to Heathrow where the plane landed safely.

The incident, which happened on 20 December and involved BA 1486 was described on a pilots’ website by a passenger who said: “At approx 20 mins into flight a very abrupt and panicked message came over the PA from the pilot ‘senior flight attendant to the flightdeck’.” The passenger then said that all the flight attendants had “worried faces” and that “next thing we were heading back to LHR (London Heathrow) at great speed”.

A BA spokeswoman said no fault was found.