British Airways A319 enroute on Oct 30th 2025, avionics problems, unreliable position, loss of AP and AT

Last Update: November 14, 2025 / 16:39:48 GMT/Zulu time

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Incident Facts

Date of incident
Oct 30, 2025

Classification
Incident

Flight number
BA-1457

Aircraft Registration
G-EUPS

Aircraft Type
Airbus A319

ICAO Type Designator
A319

A British Airways Airbus A319-100, registration G-EUPS performing flight BA-1457 from Edinburgh,SC to London Heathrow,EN (UK), was enroute at FL290 when the crew declared emergency due to problems with the avionics, unreliable position information and the loss of autopilot and autothrust. The crew continued the flight manually to Heathrow, needed to go around on first approach to runway 27R, positioned for another approach and landed safely on runway 27R about 50 minutes after declaring emergency.

The British AAIB rated the occurrence a serious incident and opened an investigation.

The aircraft remained on the ground in London until Nov 4th 2025.
Incident Facts

Date of incident
Oct 30, 2025

Classification
Incident

Flight number
BA-1457

Aircraft Registration
G-EUPS

Aircraft Type
Airbus A319

ICAO Type Designator
A319

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