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A British Airways (BA) flight from France made a priority landing at Heathrow after fumes were detected in the passenger cabin. | |
Flight BA 341 took off from Nice at about 0630 BST on Monday with 137 passengers on board and landed at the west London airport shortly after 0800. | |
There were no reported injuries among passengers on the flight from Nice. | |
A spokesman said the captain of the flight requested a "priority landing as a precaution". | |
'Fumes detected' | 'Fumes detected' |
Engineers are currently examining the Boeing 757 for clues as to the cause of the incident. | |
The spokesman said: "The captain of today's BA 341 Nice to Heathrow flight requested a priority landing as a precaution after it was reported that some fumes had been detected in the cabin. | The spokesman said: "The captain of today's BA 341 Nice to Heathrow flight requested a priority landing as a precaution after it was reported that some fumes had been detected in the cabin. |
"The 757 with 137 passengers on board landed safely and passengers disembarked as normal." | |
Emergency services were put on standby as a routine precaution but their help was not needed, he added. | |
On Sunday a BA flight travelling from Heathrow to Delhi made an emergency landing in Schoenefeld airport, south-east of Berlin, after an electrical fault was detected in its in-flight entertainment system. | On Sunday a BA flight travelling from Heathrow to Delhi made an emergency landing in Schoenefeld airport, south-east of Berlin, after an electrical fault was detected in its in-flight entertainment system. |
In an emergency landing a flight is forced to make an unscheduled stop while in the case of a priority landing the flight's crew request to be placed first in the queue for landing. |