What Happened to the British Airways Flight One for Nine?

Many of the passengers who got on board british arway's flight one for nine assumed the first stop was going to be madras, india. They were rather shocked to discover that their first destination was coate airport. The plane flies seven hours and then it lands in coat, and it gets aviation fuel on board. So this is pivotal in history. This was a direct flight to malasia, or there was supposed to be a stop in cuet. Is that right? Many people believe the whole air conditioning unit thing was a diversion, bogus, and it was merely designed to keep the plane there for an extra two hours after its departure time.

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