British Airways "were about to crash"

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British Airways apologised to passengers after an emergency message warning they were about to crash into the sea was played by mistake.

About 275 passengers were on the London Heathrow to Hong Kong flight on Tuesday evening when the automated message went out. The plane was flying over the North Sea at the time.

Cabin crew quickly realised the error and moved to reassure the terrified passengers.

"We all thought we were going to die," Michelle Lord, 32, of Preston, told The Sun newspaper.

Another passenger was reported saying: "I can't think of anything worse than being told your plane's about to crash."

A spokesman for British Airways said an investigation was under way to discover whether it was human error or a computer glitch.

"We apologise to passengers on board the flight for causing them undue distress," he added in a statement.

"Our cabin crew immediately made an announcement following the message advising customers that it was an error and that the flight would continue as normal."
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Wow bet that was fun for the people onboard BA just keep going from strength to strength lately.
 
to be honest if I was just flying along perfectly normally and that announcement was made I'd question it first rather than panicking. You don't just go normal flight, normal flight, in the sea
 
Tomorrow will be the most beautiful day of those 275 passengers lives. Their breakfast will taste better than any meal you and I have ever tasted.
 
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Kind of reminds me of a Father Ted episode that featured Dougal in the cockpit with a 'Do Not Press' button. I imagine thats what happened here, those red buttons are tempting.
 
matt_fsr said:
There's 275 customers lost straight away ;)
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Winky makes no sense as per usual on this board, but why would they be scared to fly BA again? It's an error, it happens. They didn't crash, reach their destination, spoke to a trash rag, have a story to tell in the pub which will be it. Forgotten in 6 months from now.
 
Abraham said:
to be honest if I was just flying along perfectly normally and that announcement was made I'd question it first rather than panicking. You don't just go normal flight, normal flight, in the sea
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Tell that to Air France ;)
 
least it wasn't ryanair


"we're all going to die"

"no you're not - our mistake"

"Thank god, I need a stiff drink after that"

"that will be £5.70 please"
 
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