Flightradar is showing BA207 to Miami circling off the Cornish coast

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The flight was from London to Miami but did a U-turn near Ireland and is now circling around the Cornish coast. Fuel dumping?

BA207 from London to Miami https://fr24.com/BAW207/30d32431

Who cares?

Possibly, before heading back to Heathrow. It can't be an EMERGENCY emergency, or they'd have diverted to Shannon based on where they turned back.

What a delight you are

Not you, so why not move on and don't comment? You don't have to add your opinion to every thread you open. Have people really not realised this yet .

OP watching with interest and hoping people far more knowledgeable than me hop along and share some insight.

Maybe the OP has someone on the plane and is concerned?

There's quite a few of us flightradar nerds on Mumsnet. No need for the snarkiness, if you don't find something interesting, ignore and move on like the mature grown up I'm sure you are.

According to Twitter it’s a standby system failure?

plane still perfectly able to fly but would have been grounded in Miami, presumably with it being BA they prefer it grounded here as access to their mechanics etc?

Yes it looks as if heading back to Heathrow…hope it’s a precautionary measure .

Twitter saying they’ve got a failure of something on board that will ground the airplane in Miami so are returning to Heathrow. Place fully functional though so not in danger.

Ah that must be a relief for those on board. I guess they have to dump the fuel to land.

*plane !

Well you were obviously interested enough to open the thread and make your childish comment!

BA flight checker says it is delayed overnight until 14.00 tomorrow, Friday.

Don’t bother replying if you don’t care.

DH works for air traffic control and I'm always asking about a flight which has been diverted, or turned back or whatever. He just rolls his eyes, says it happens all the time and they don't pay extra attention to it.

For fellow FR geeks - this story is interesting. https://www.flightradar24.com/blog/air-india-russia-diversion/

Air India plane headed to San Francisco from Delhi, forced to divert over Russian airspace (India is one of the few countries still flying over Russia). Passengers evacuated the following day. But the plane is stuck there because of the sanctions - can't get a replacement engine to it, and the only plane big enough to fly in an engine is Ukrainian...

They need to burn at least 2 hours more fuel - here's the voice recording from the pilots to ATC.

twitter.com/eisnspotter/status/1671891813639294982?s=61&t=fF54qY-30vENEyi975gm4w

Something mentioned on Twitter that the plane was unable to cross the Atlantic. I’m not sure why? Any experts on here?

It took off 4 hours ago!

I think you can tell from the laid-back tone of the convo that nobody is even slightly worried.

@GulesMeansRed I listened recently to a conversation from when a window smashed open and a passenger was sucked out. They all sounded amazingly calm then as well. I think the just train to sound like that and not panick. Although all other evidence suggests this isn't a big problem.

Maybe people who've progressed beyond primary school level

They shouldnt be allowed to dump thousands of litres of fuel just for the convenience of BA having a malfunctioning plane at its hub airport.

Landing in a malfuctioning aircraft full of tons of fuel is really not the best option. Neither is flying all the way across the Atlantic in it.

If you listen to the recording, the pilot clearly says they are burning off the fuel. Not dumping it.

You're right. Far better to risk a landing with a full fuel tank. I mean what could possibly go wrong.