A London-Chennai flight of British Airways operated by a Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner plane returned to the airport of origin mid-flight due to a “technical issue”, the airline mentioned.
Lufthansa’s Frankfurt-Hyderabad flight operated on a Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner additionally returned to the airport of origin mid-flight following a bomb menace.
“The aircraft returned to Heathrow as a standard precaution after reports of a technical issue,” British Airways mentioned in a press assertion.
“The flight landed safely with crew and customers disembarking as they normally would, and our teams are working hard to get their journeys back on track as soon as possible,” the assertion added.
As per the info obtainable with Flightradar24, flight BA35 took off from Heathrow Airport at 1.16 p.m. after a 36-minute delay.
Data from the web site exhibits that the Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner circled over the Strait of Dover a number of occasions earlier than returning to London’s Heathrow Airport.
In a separate incident, a Hyderabad-bound Lufthansa plane from Frankfurt returned to its base mid-flight following a bomb menace, prompting a full-scale safety response.
The flight, LH 752, operated by a Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner, departed Frankfurt Airport round 6 p.m. According to flight monitoring information, the plane had been airborne for practically two hours and was flying over Bulgarian airspace when it made a U-turn and was diverted again to Frankfurt.
The plane had been scheduled to arrive at Hyderabad’s Rajiv Gandhi International Airport (RGIA) at roughly 1.20 a.m. on Monday (June 16, 2025).
“We checked with the airline and it has been confirmed that there was allegedly a bomb threat and that is why it was diverted,” an official at Hyderabad airport advised The Hindu.
Published – June 15, 2025 11:53 pm IST
