Passengers Spend Seven Hours Flying Nowhere After Midair Problem

Toby Melville / Toby Melville/ Reuters A planeful of British Airways passengers spent seven hours in the skies only to eventually disembark exactly where they’d set off from. The aircraft was already running more than five hours late when it took off from Johannesburg in South Africa on Saturday to begin the 10-1/2-hour haul to London. The plane headed north for two hours before making an abrupt U-turn in the skies above the Democratic Republic of Congo after what the airline has described as a…