British Airways flight from Berlin to Heathrow takes seven hours but ends up back where ...
(World News UK)

A BRITISH Airways flight from Berlin to London Heathrow got within touching distance of the UK before pulling a U-turn back to its take-off destination. Around 180 passengers were left stranded when heavy snow forced flight BA983, which took off five hours late, to head back to Germany. Peter Wiles / Twitter 3 > The Airbus A320, which was due to leave Berlin Tegel at 1.50pm, finally took off at 6.57pm and made it half way across the North Sea (less than an hour from Heathrow). “When [we] are not able to operate flights into Heathrow as planned,” a British Airways spokesperson was quoted as saying by the Telegraph. They added: “We do our best to keep customers updated, and...