In the last few moments, British Airways flight BA9250 between Athens and London has declared an emergency.
G-NEOW is the aircraft involved in the incident.
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LIVE Emergency!: British Airways Flight BA9250 Athens-London…
UPDATE #1 @ 1427 UK time – British Airways flight BA9250, which declared the emergency, is currently descending.
UPDATE #2 @ 1432 UK time – Also, G-NEOW is the aircraft operating the flight.
Furthermore, as per Planespotters, G-NEOW is a 5.1 year old airframe that was delivered to BA in October 2019.
UPDATE #3 @ 1435 UK time – The aircraft has now made a u-turn and is currently at FL120.
EMERGENCY UPDATE #4 @ 1438 UK time – It looks like this emergency has a further story.
On November 21st, G-NEOW was operating London Heathrow to Cairo.
The aircraft diverted to Athens where it has been on the ground for two days.
Also, this emergency could be relevant to the issues that caused the diversion.
UPDATE #5 @ 1444 UK time – It is expected that British Airways flight BA9250, the emergency, will divert back to Athens.
UPDATE #6 @ 1449 UK time – The aircraft is making a strong track back to Athens.
Furthermore, with the 9250 flight number, this was a re-positioning flight back to Heathrow, so no passengers onboard.
UPDATE #7 @ 1501 UK time – The aircraft has started descending again, as preparations for landing into Athens continue.
UPDATE #8 @ 1512 UK time – The flight is now back on final into the Greek airport, emergency landing imminent.
EMERGENCY UPDATE #9 @ 1518 UK time – TOUCHDOWN!
British Airways flight BA9250, which declared the emergency, has appeared to have touched down safely into Athens.
As soon as we have the reason, we will update you accordingly.
For now, this remains a developing story.
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