UK’s first chartered flight to evacuate Britons from Middle East fails to take off from Oman

The first flight chartered by the UK government to bring back Britons stranded in the Middle East due to the US-Israeli war against Iran did not take off from Oman on Wednesday.

Sky News reported that the plane, which was supposed to leave Muscat at 7pm on Wednesday, remained grounded on Thursday morning.

Nearly 130,000 Britons have registered their presence in the Middle East and the Foreign Office said it was working with airlines to bring them back.

There was no sign of the chartered flight arriving at Heathrow airport on Thursday morning and it did not appear on flight tracking services or arrival boards in the terminal.

Early morning arrivals included flights from South Africa and Nigeria as planned, but the terminal was quiet.

Several commercial flights from the Middle East are expected to arrive at Heathrow terminal 5 this morning; A commercial flight will also land from Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, just after 6 a.m.

The British Airways flight from Muscat, which was supposed to arrive at 6.25am this morning, was postponed to 8.13am according to the arrival board.

Flights from Doha and Dubai were cancelled.

Independent He approached the Foreign Office and the British embassy in Oman for comment.