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A British Airways flight from UK to Dubai was compelled to divert after Donald Trump launched a US assault on Iran.
BA flight 109 from London Heathrow to the Gulf hub took off at 9.53pm on Saturday (21 June) and flew usually for nearly 5 hours in direction of Dubai.
But at 2.48am British time, about 90 minutes earlier than landing at Dubai, the plane circled and retraced its course as a result of contemporary assaults within the Middle East.
The flight had been fuelled just for the journey to Dubai with a contingency for diversion – however couldn’t make all of it the way in which again to London. Instead, the pilots landed at Zurich airport, which is 480 miles from Heathrow.
The Independent’s journey correspondent Simon Calder explains extra.
https://www.independent.co.uk/tv/news/british-airways-heathrow-divert-trump-us-bombs-iran-b2774709.html