An Air Canada flight bound for Toronto was forced to make an emergency return to Heathrow Airport after a mid-air scare shortly after take-off.<\/p>\n
Flight AC853 departed at 08:34 BST on Saturday and climbed to 34,000 feet, heading out over the Atlantic as scheduled.<\/p>\n
However, less than an hour into the journey, the crew issued a Squawk 7700 signal \u2013 a code used to alert air traffic control to a serious problem onboard.<\/p>\n
The aircraft, a Boeing 777-300ER, quickly abandoned its transatlantic route and carried out a controlled turnaround back towards London, with emergency services placed on standby.<\/p>\n
Tracking data indicates the jet began its return shortly after reaching cruising altitude at around 09:15 BST before descending towards the capital.<\/p>\n
The plane touched down safely on runway 27L at approximately 10:02 BST. Landings on Heathrow\u2019s south runway were briefly suspended as a precaution while emergency crews responded in line with standard protocol.<\/p>\n
The aircraft later taxied to the gate under escort from emergency vehicles, with passengers taken back to the terminal.<\/p>\n
Air Canada has not yet confirmed the cause of the emergency, with such alerts typically triggered by a range of issues including technical faults or medical incidents.<\/p>\n
No injuries have been reported following the incident.<\/p>\n
The airline has since arranged a replacement departure later the same morning, while the situation is expected to be reviewed by both the airline and airport authorities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Air Canada flight bound for Toronto was forced to make an emergency return to Heathrow Airport after…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29397,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1206,13674,13671,13673,17,13672,13670,13675,4574,13631],"class_list":{"0":"post-29396","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-canada","8":"tag-air-canada","9":"tag-air-canada-emergency","10":"tag-aircraft","11":"tag-boeing-777-300er","12":"tag-canada","13":"tag-emergency-landing","14":"tag-emergency-news","15":"tag-flight-emergency-heathrow","16":"tag-flights","17":"tag-heathrow-airport"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29396\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}