BA893 - Incident: British Airways A320 at Sofia on Sep 10th 2023

A British Airways Airbus A320-200, registration G-MIDS performing flight BA-893 from Sofia (Bulgaria) to London Heathrow,EN (UK), was climbing out of Sofia's runway 09 when the crew stopped the climb at FL200 maintaining speeds below 360 knots over ground and requested to enter a hold at FL200. The crew reported the flaps were retracted but were locked, hence they needed to do a high speed landing. The aircraft returned to Sofia for a landing on runway 09 at a higher than normal speed (about 180 knots over ground) about 55 minutes after departure.

The aircraft is still on the ground in Sofia about 24 hours after landing back.