BA flight delayed over terror fears arrives in US

THE twice-cancelled British Airways Flight 223 landed safely outside Washington yesterday morning, as British officials warned more flights may be called off to prevent another September 11-style attack.

The British Airways flight from London, which had been delayed for three hours on Saturday due to extra security procedures, landed without incident at Washington’s Dulles International Airport around 4.15am Irish time.

“It landed as normal,” Tom Sullivan, spokesman for Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority, said of Flight 223, which had been cancelled Thursday and Friday due to intelligence information. “It’s good ... that those folks have been able to get to the Washington area at last.”