British Airways Mistakenly Tells Passengers There Plane Could Be About To Crash

Passengers flying over the Atlantic were terrified when it was announced twice that their plane could be about to crash.

British Airways (BA) Flight 206 was at 35,000 feet (10,668 meters),
halfway from Miami to London's Heathrow Airport,
when the taped message was played by accident.

Screams rang out as it was repeated straightaway.

An Edinburgh man said, "It was about 3:00am.
An alarm sounded, and we were told we were about to land in the sea.

I thought we were going to die. My wife was crying, and passengers were
screaming.

Then they played an announcement telling us to just ignore
the warnings."

Another passenger said, "When we landed,
they were handing out letters apologizing, but it was the worst
experience of my life. I don't think BA should get away with this."

A BA spokesman said of the scare en route to
Heathrow on Friday, "The cabin crew canceled the announcement
immediately and sought to reassure customers that the flight was
operating normally.

We apologize to customers for causing them undue
concern."

On August 2010, a message announcing, "We
may shortly need to make an emergency landing on water," was played by
mistake on a British Airways flight from Heathrow to Hong Kong.

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