Heathrow denies ‘Mayday’ claims

Monday, 17 Feb, 2014 0

Heathrow Airport has denied claims that several planes made ‘Mayday’ distress calls during the worst storms on Friday.

The Sunday Times reported that four planes made ‘Mayday’ calls – the most serious state of emergency – with three ‘believing they were running out of reserve fuel’.

It said the weather forced some flights to divert leaving them close to running out of fuel.

But Heathrow Airport issued a statement to say the story in the Sunday newspaper was untrue.

A spokesman said: "There were no mayday or distress calls received at Heathrow. Due to high cross winds some aircraft were diverted to other UK airports that have spare runway capacity."



 

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