Posted on 01/28/2016 6:42:45 AM PST by BenLurkin
The aircraft, a Boeing 777 with 188 passengers and crew on board, was already southwest of Iceland when the decision was taken to divert the plane back to Heathrow, rather than landing at Keflavik.
On landing at Heathrow, luggage was taken away for inspection without explanation.
One member of the cabin crew fainted and five others complained of feeling unwell as did up to three passengers.
Alan Gray, 41, a passenger on the flight said he saw a flight attendant collapse.
“It was at that point the captain said he was turning the plane around. He said he wasn't willing to take the risk to keep going and hadn't got the crew to do it,†Mr Gray told Mail Online. The plane was given an escort as it taxied back to the terminal at Heathrow.
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smells funny
I wonder why they didn’t stop in Iceland?
But I didn’t eat the fish...
If it was a real emergency....I think they would have.
Kef’s usual group of planes to land are all medium sized aircraft and while the runway is more than long enough....getting cargo or passengers off might not be that simple. I also think it’s only 2-hour flight back to London....so maybe they were thinking of their ‘team’ being there and able to figure out the cause rather than flying a bunch of folks over to Kef.
Does Kef have medical response teams capable of handling hundreds of possibly sick passengers?
If it was something like bad air in the plane. The pilot and co pilot could have been the next ones to fall out.
I’ve landed in Kef maybe twelve times. It’s a nice little airport with roughly 30 gates. Icelandic Air mostly uses it....with a few small operations. They have some medical response capability but if you were talking about 300 passengers getting off with serious nausea...they’d have to call for more help.
Well...isn’t there some rule when you suspect something bad with the air....as the pilot and co-pilot....you have to don the masks and fly the remainder of the trip with them on?
It was the salmon mousse...
CC
I am not a pilot and I don’t know the rules but I hope you are correct. I still think they should have gone to Iceland.
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