A planeful of British Airways passengers spent seven hours in the skies only to eventually disembark exactly where they’d set off from. The aircraft was already running more than five hours late when it took off from Johannesburg in South Africa on Saturday to begin the 10-1/2-hour haul to London. The plane headed north for two hours before making an abrupt U-turn in the skies above the Democratic Republic of Congo after what the airline has described as a “technical issue.” Online aviation sleuths have since suggested the problem may have had something to do with the aircraft’s weather radar system. The jet then headed back toward Johannesburg, where it remained in a hold pattern for two hours before finally coming in to land. “We’re sorry for the inconvenience caused to customers after their aircraft returned,” a British Airways spokesperson said. “Following the aircraft’s return, our teams provided overnight accommodation and support, and worked to minimize disruption.”
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