BA55 - Incident: British Airways A388 at Johannesburg on Sep 26th 2022

A British Airways Airbus A380-800, registration G-XLED performing flight BA-55 from London Heathrow,EN (UK) to Johannesburg (South Africa), landed on Johannesburg's runway 03R maintaining routine communication and taxied to the apron.

The aircraft was unable to depart for the return flight however and is still on the ground in Johannesburg about 36 hours after landing.

A passenger booked onto the return flight BA-56 reported they were ready to embark the aircraft when they were told very late the aircraft had received a bird strike.