British Airways passengers spent seven hours on an airplane only to end up back where they started.
Flight 54 departed Johannesburg last Saturday, bound for London, a journey that typically lasts around 10-and-a-half hours. It took off more than five hours behind schedule, at 2:45 a.m. local time.
While it isn’t clear how many people were on board, the flight was operated by an Airbus A380, the world’s largest passenger plane, with 469 seats in BA’s configuration.
The double-decker jet flew north for about two hours before U-turning over the Democratic Republic of the Congo, according to data from Flightradar24.
It headed back towards…
