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Old Dec 11, 2017, 9:39 am
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BA198 [BOM-LHR] 7700 Squawk [and diversion to GYD]
How accurate is Flight Radar24/ BA198 just squarked and has been losing altitude and spped quite rapidly over Baku, mid flight...
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Old Dec 11, 2017, 9:41 am
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It just changed direction at 1300 ft looks like its going for landing in Baku.
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Old Dec 11, 2017, 9:42 am
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FR24 is usually accurate - I'd assume it's a medical emergency...

That flight is having a bad week - it diverted to Frankfurt yesterday.
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Old Dec 11, 2017, 9:43 am
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looks like a medical emergency.
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Old Dec 11, 2017, 9:43 am
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Looks like they're diverting to GYD - on finals now
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Old Dec 11, 2017, 9:44 am
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just landing in Baku.
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Old Dec 11, 2017, 9:46 am
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For those of us who haven't yet memorised all of BA's flight numbers... BA198 is BOM-LHR.

https://www.flightradar24.com/data/flights/ba198
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Old Dec 11, 2017, 9:48 am
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Check The BA Source ? British Airways News and Information later, it will have it amongst all the diversions.
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Old Dec 11, 2017, 9:54 am
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Originally Posted by Stez
For those of us who haven't yet memorised all of BA's flight numbers... BA198 is BOM-LHR.
It's one of the easier ones - the digits add up to 18, which is the age when you say "BYE" to MUM - thus Mumbai (BOM).
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Old Dec 11, 2017, 10:03 am
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Originally Posted by Stez
For those of us who haven't yet memorised all of BA's flight numbers... BA198 is BOM-LHR.

https://www.flightradar24.com/data/f.../ba198#fccb10c
For those of us who don't already know, Flight Tracker only needs a flight number.
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Old Dec 11, 2017, 10:04 am
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Seems to have diverted to Baku.
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Old Dec 11, 2017, 10:05 am
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Oh yes of course.

Originally Posted by TheJayHatch
For those of us who don't already know, Flight Tracker only needs a flight number.
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Old Dec 11, 2017, 10:06 am
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Originally Posted by TheJayHatch
For those of us who don't already know, Flight Tracker only needs a flight number.
But many of us are frequent flyers rather than aviation geeks and knowing where the aircraft was coming from and to is helpful in understanding the thread.
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Old Dec 11, 2017, 10:30 am
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Old Dec 11, 2017, 10:32 am
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Originally Posted by markle
Passenger on Twitter reporting that there was smoke in the F cabin

https://twitter.com/sylviatra/status/940272083451424768
If smoke is untraceable (and occasionally traceable) it definitely will get an immediate diversion.
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