Mayday declared on BA16 SYD SIN - Safe return of aircraft

[tomlee1986]

https://www.news.com.au/travel/travel-updates/incidents/boeing-dreamliner-makes-mayday-call-returns-to-sydney/news-story/aab22124bd24b7de6e184769f638281d

A British Airways Dreamliner has issued a mayday call over central NSW and returned to Sydney.
The flight bound for Singapore was in the air a little under an hour on Monday afternoon, and firefighters were reportedly waiting for the plane back on the Sydney tarmac.

However, the plane made it back to the gate safely.

The flight left Sydney 24 minutes late, at 3.04pm on Monday.

Flight data shows that, about 200km out over central NSW, the plane was forced to turn around, and landed back in Sydney at 3.56pm.

Aircraft is G-ZBKL - A 9 year old B787-9

 

[DejaBrew]

Geez.... talk about giving people the wrong impression of what happened in this story!!

 

[tomlee1986]

Geez.... talk about giving people the wrong impression of what happened in this story!!

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Sadly thats the issue with online news with videos - they are so misleading in the video

 

[DejaBrew]

Turns out it was a false alarm.

BA flight's emergency landing at Sydney Airport was due to false alarm

The British Airways passenger flight BA16 was on its way to Singapore and made the emergency return to Sydney Airport about an hour after take-off on Monday afternoon.

www.abc.net.au

 

[justinbrett]

Turns out it was a false alarm.

BA flight's emergency landing at Sydney Airport was due to false alarm

The British Airways passenger flight BA16 was on its way to Singapore and made the emergency return to Sydney Airport about an hour after take-off on Monday afternoon.

www.abc.net.au

Now concerned about the pax who said they smelt smoke

 

[DejaBrew]

Now concerned about the pax who said they smelt smoke

From what I've seen/heard this morning, it sounds like it was the pilots reporting smoke/fumes in the coughpit

 

[tomlee1986]

Turns out it was a false alarm.

BA flight's emergency landing at Sydney Airport was due to false alarm

The British Airways passenger flight BA16 was on its way to Singapore and made the emergency return to Sydney Airport about an hour after take-off on Monday afternoon.

www.abc.net.au

Better false alarm than the real one!!!

 

[justinbrett]

From what I've seen/heard this morning, it sounds like it was the pilots reporting smoke/fumes in the coughpit

One of the stations was interviewing pax after the flight who said they smelt it.

 

[justinbrett]

Two speedbirds parked on the apron this morning. No sign of a return flight plan?

 

[Quickstatus]

For a while LH crew were prominent in their olfactory abilities.