On 3 July, a British Airways Boeing 777-200ER (G-YMMU) operated flight BA119 between London Heathrow, U.K. and Bangalore, India. Flying over Southeast England, however, the pilots squawked a 7700 general emergency distress signal adding “technical issues“: fumes were spotted in the cockpit prompting the crew to put on their oxygen masks, to dump fuel above the English Channel and to head back to Heathrow.
Vinita A Shetty, one of the passengers on board wrote her experience on Twitter: “Quite scary for us passengers on the said flight but we are back in London safe. Kudos to @British_Airways pilot Adam B for landing flight #ba119 safely after fumes were spotted in the cockpit. The pilots wore oxygen masks. Crew kept their cool and made sure no one panicked.”
Quite scary for us passengers on the said flight but we are back in London safe. Kudos to @British_Airways pilot Adam B for landing flight #ba119 safely after fumes were spotted in the cockpit. The pilots wore oxygen masks. Crew kept their cool and made sure no one panicked. https://t.co/r0jaHGuzib
— Vinita A Shetty (@vinitagsingh) July 3, 2019
