A British Airways Boeing 777-200ER flying from London Heathrow to Chicago O'Hare returned to Heathrow on 5 October 2026 after its crew declared a general emergency and flew a rapid descent over the Irish Sea, with passenger oxygen masks deploying in the cabin. Flight BA295, registration G-VIIA, landed safely later that afternoon and passengers disembarked normally, the airline said, describing the event only as the result of a "technical issue".
The widebody was cruising roughly 40 nautical miles south of Dublin when the descent began. The crew squawked 7700, the transponder code that…