BA Sends Passengers Into Panic with Crash Announcement


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Airlines are always looking for new forms on in-flight entertainment to spice up those long boring hours for passengers, but it seems like BA went a bit too far on a recent flight:

British Airways apologized today for an error that left passengers on board a flight from Miami to London in a state of panic and shock. Passengers traveling on British Airways Flight 206 were about three hours into their flight early Friday morning when an announcement warned them to brace themselves for an emergency water landing because the plane was about to go down. “This is an emergency. We will shortly be making an emergency landing on water,” the taped message said, played at around 3 a.m. on the overnight flight. The cabin erupted in panic as startled passengers woke to the announcement and feared for their lives.

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