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By Simon Hradecky, created Saturday, Jul 9th 2016 16:06Z, last updated Saturday, Jul 9th 2016 16:08Z A British Airways Boeing 777-300, registration G-STBH performing flight BA-7 from London Heathrow,EN (UK) to Tokyo Haneda (Japan), had initially tracked on a northnortheasterly heading through Norway on a near polar track, but then turned east, flew a hold pattern over Finland and then tracked a significantly more southerly track than obviously planned. The aircraft thus was enroute at FL350 about 100nm southwest of Igarka (Russia) 6:03 hours into the flight when the crew turned the aircraft around, descended to FL340 and returned to London for a safe landing at Heathrow's runway 27R 11:45 hours after departure.



A passenger reported the crew announced a wrong flight plan had been filed.



The airline reported a minor technical fault prompted the return.



The passengers were taken to hotels and rebooked onto the next day's flight BA-7, which did reach Tokyo on schedule.



The occurrence aircraft remained on the ground for 12 hours then departed to San Francisco for its next flight.



Flight trajectory (Graphics: AVH/Google Earth):









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