{"id":259387,"date":"2025-07-31T00:31:15","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T14:31:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/united-airlines-boeing-777-emergency-landing-london-heathrow-airport\/"},"modified":"2025-07-31T00:31:15","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T14:31:15","slug":"united-airlines-flight-diverts-back-to-london-heathrow-airport-due-to-technical-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=259387","title":{"rendered":"United Airlines Flight Diverts Back To London Heathrow Airport Due To Technical Issue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A United Airlines flight bound from<span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"259797\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/london-heathrow-airport\/\"  >London Heathrow Airport<\/a><\/span> (LHR) to San Francisco International (SFO) this lunchtime found itself back on the ground in the British capital city less than half an hour after taking to the skies over West London. Reports have emerged that the flight diverted back to London Heathrow Airport as a result of a technical issue, with some even saying that smoke filled the cabin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A United Airlines flight from London Heathrow to San Francisco was forced to return to its departure airport just 27 minutes after takeoff due to a technical issue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,476,398,737,1022,536,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-259387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-airlines","category-boeing","category-boeing-777","category-london-heathrow-airport","category-united-airlines","category-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=259387"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":259388,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259387\/revisions\/259388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=259387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=259387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=259387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}