Passengers spent 8 hours on a transatlantic flight that turned around about 300 miles from North America

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Passengers spent 8 hours on a transatlantic flight that turned around about 300 miles from North America

Virgin Atlantic passengers spent eight hours on a flight that returned to the ***.

The flight turned around about 330 miles off the coast of Canada.

A Manchester Airport spokesperson said the Airbus A350 might have had a problem with its hydraulics.

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flight had almost reached North America before it turned back to the *** in an eight-hour ordeal for passengers.

Flight 3 was heading from

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to New York’s JFK Airport on Thursday.

Nearly four hours after departing, it was about 330 miles off the ********* coast when it

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, according to data from Flightradar24. It then squawked 7700, an emergency signal.

The Airbus A350 landed in Manchester, in northern England, about eight hours after taking off from London.

A Virgin Atlantic spokesperson said in a statement that the flight returned “as a precautionary measure,” citing a “technical issue.”

Images shared on social media showed the A350 landing at Manchester with its landing-gear doors open — a sign of a problem with the plane’s hydraulics.

A spokesperson for Manchester Airport told Business Insider they understood that the aircraft had a hydraulics issue.

They added that the flight was met by the airport fire service, which was protocol for a technical issue and “very much precautionary in this instance.”

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over such long distances can be highly irritating for passengers and costly for airlines — with knock-on effects on flight schedules.

But it’s typically easier for airlines to reroute passengers and repair planes at a hub airport. Manchester is Virgin Atlantic’s secondary hub, after Heathrow Airport.

*** understands that Flight 3 requested a priority landing at Heathrow, but that didn’t happen for unknown reasons.

Passengers were given overnight accommodation in Manchester and scheduled on alternative flights on Friday.

“The safety and security of our customers and crew is always our top priority and our teams are working hard to ensure our customers can continue on their journey as soon as possible,” the Virgin Atlantic spokesperson said.

“We sincerely apologize for the delay and any inconvenience caused.”

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