{"id":328969,"date":"2025-12-13T22:36:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-13T12:36:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/9-hour-flight-to-nowhere-british-airways-787-mexico-altimeter-failure\/"},"modified":"2025-12-13T22:36:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T12:36:06","slug":"9-hour-flight-to-nowhere-british-airways-787-flying-to-mexico-turns-back-after-altimeter-failure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=328969","title":{"rendered":"9-Hour Flight To Nowhere: British Airways 787 Flying To Mexico Turns Back After Altimeter Failure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Passengers onboard a recent <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"77388\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/british-airways\/\"  >British Airways<\/a><\/span> flight from London to Mexico City found themselves back in the British capital almost nine hours after departure. The flight \u2014 operated by one of BA&#8217;s Boeing 787-9 Dreamliners \u2014 turned back off the coast of Canada following a reported technical failure with the aircraft&#8217;s radio altimeter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The airline decided returning to base was the best course of action.<\/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":[396,995,2638,1513,1022,1286,701],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-328969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-boeing-787","category-boeing-787-9","category-british-airways","category-london-heathrow-airport","category-mexico-city-international-airport","category-united-kingdom"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328969","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=328969"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":328970,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328969\/revisions\/328970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=328969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=328969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=328969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}