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United Airlines flight UA941 emergency
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United Airlines flight UA941 emergency

The gist

United Airlines flight UA941, a Boeing 767-300ER bound for Newark.
United says the jet returned to address a cabin odor.

How it unfolded

  1. Oct 15, 2026UA941 departed Heathrow runway 27L shortly after 4:00 PM BST; FlightAware logged departure at 4:33 p.m. local time and the jet leveled off at about 32,000 feet north of Manchester shortly before 5 p.m.
  2. Oct 15, 2026At 32,000 feet over Manchester the crew declared an emergency, squawked 7700 (the transponder code for a general emergency) and requested an immediate return to Heathrow.
  3. Oct 15, 2026Pilots initially planned to dump roughly 20 tons of fuel to lower landing weight, then abandoned the plan and returned directly; the jet swung south and flew level at about 15,000 feet over the Midlands for around 10 minutes.

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