LONDON — A British Airways Boeing 747 jet bound for Chicago with 172 passengers aboard made an emergency return landing at London's Heathrow Airport on Thursday because of a fire alert. The alert turned out to be a false alarm.
The plane, flight BA-297, was 20 minutes out of Heathrow when a warning light indicated a fire in the cargo hold, an airport spokesman said. The aircraft returned for an emergency landing on a runway surrounded by fire trucks and other emergency equipment.
