United Airlines flight forced into emergency landing at Heathrow after Boeing plane suffers problem

A United Airlines flight UA169 was forced to make an emergency landing at Heathrow after suffering a mid-flight technical issue. The Boeing 767 jet, bound for Newark in New Jersey, left Venice Marco Polo Airport at 11:21 local time on Monday. But just a few hours into its nine hour transatlantic trip, it was forced to prepare for an emergency landing. After flying across Austria, Germany, and Belgium without a hiccup, crew were forced to sound the squawk 7700 code in the British airspace. The alert is an international code for a general emergency involving a technical fault, understood to be a mechanical issue. The jet - which was carrying 2…