Passengers were waiting to board a British Airways flight at São Paulo airport in Brazil when lightning struck the plane.

A Virgin Atlantic aircraft, too, once managed to achieve high subsonic speed in 2019 on a flight from Los Angeles to London.

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A British Airways flight declared a mid-air alert that triggered an emergency response at Gatwick Airport. BA flight EFW34R from Gatwick to Palma de Mallorca departed at 8.06am, but was forced to ...

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SAO PAULO, Brazil - While waiting for his flight, a British Airways passenger captured the moment lightning struck the plane he would ride home in on Friday. The incident occurred at Sao Paulo ...

A British Airways crewmember accidentally deployed the aircraft’s emergency slide at London’s Heathrow Airport on Monday morning, delaying the flight for hours. The flight, which was scheduled ...

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A British Airways flight was forced to make a U-turn and return to its departure airport not long after take-off this morning (January 4), after issuing an emergency distress signal in mid-air.

Several other aircraft types do still offer first class - including the Airbus A380, Boeing 777-200 and 777-300, and the Boeing 787-9 and 787-10. The aircraft are configured ... Simple Flying had the ...