BA flight en route to Mumbai makes emergency landing

 Thursday, July 12, 2018 

A British Airways flight en route to Mumbai from London had make an emergency here on Thursday. The plane was carrying 214 people. No one was hurt.

 
The airline said in a statement that the decision to divert the plane was made “following a technical issue.”

 
The captain of flight BAW199 requested an emergency landing at Baku’s Heydar Aliyev airport after a failure of the left engine on the Boeing-777, the airport said.

 
The plane landed safely at around 6:30 a.m. local time. The passengers were taken to the airport’s transit zone and were given food and drink, according to the airport.

 
British Airways said it was trying to get a new aircraft for the passengers and get them on the way as soon as possible.

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