Anyone watching flight radar?

[MrsPatrickDempsey]

What is going on with BA277?
Took off from Heathrow - now appears to be stacking to land again. Interesting!

Is that the one circling over the Thames estuary now? Is a bit odd for sure

It said "Diverted to LHR" so i guess it's dumping fuel and coming back in for whatever reason. Most likely technical?

Just opened it out of pure curiosity
Do they normally circle like that?

weird.

Says on Twitter it’s returning due to a technical issue.

Not on the way out @MrsCaptainJakeBallard! Maybe if they were waiting to land but that tends to be larger circles.

Very odd.

It was stacking for ages so couldn't have been too serious

@Snowpatrolling

Says on Twitter it’s returning due to a technical issue.

Precisely this. It needs to jettison fuel over the sea before it can land safely.

Looks like it's heading back to LHR.

On its way back now

So it's been circling for an hour and a half?

Looks like it departed, for some reason initially entered (the standard)
hold over Biggin Hill...then headed out over the Thames to hold again - my guess would be that would be for fuel dumping purposes because that's something the authorities prefer not to done overland (even though no fuel should reach the surface) or in a standard hold that other aircraft are using ..

Looks like they are on approach as I type.

The fact they went off and dumped fuel, rather than rushing back to land overweight hopefully is a sign it was a minor problem.

I am now! DH says I am a geek

Landed!

@Historytoo

I am now! DH says I am a geek

I used to work night shifts and when I got home at unsociable hours, I used to watch FedEx and UPS planes landing and taking off in the Midlands and going to Cologne. I used to get really into it. You're not a geek....yet...

For those that were following this, from the "BA source" website this morning:

British Airways Boeing 777-236ER G-YMMR operating BA277 London Heathrow – Hyderabad stopped the climb at 6,000ft near Orpington this afternoon due to a technical issue, entered a hold to work checklists then positioned off the coast to a hold north of Whitstable to burn fuel before returning to London Heathrow for a safe landing. The aircraft departed again after just over three hours on the ground and successfully completed the flight.

(Given the time taken and location of where it was done I rather suspect "burn fuel" should actually be "dump fuel").

thebasource.com/