A British Airways crew member accidentally deploys an emergency chip at the airport

A British Airways crew member accidentally deployed the plane’s emergency slide when… London Heathrow Airport Monday morning, delaying the flight for hours.

The flight, which was scheduled to head to Brussels, was delayed for almost three hours after an error by the employee, A British Airways A Fox Business Digital spokesperson said Tuesday.

“We have apologized to customers for the delay and our teams have been working hard to arrange an alternative aircraft so customers can travel with us as planned,” the spokesperson said in a statement.

The spokesman said there were no customers on board at the time of the incident, and emergency services responded as part of a standard precaution.

Two dead bodies were discovered in the landing gear of the JETBLUE plane

A British Airways spokesperson said the plane’s emergency slide was deployed at London’s Heathrow Airport due to a crew error. (iStock/iStock)

A The source told The Sun That a crew member’s mistake was “the simplest of mistakes” even though it was a costly mistake.

A British Airways spokesman said the flight was delayed, although it departed within three hours of the scheduled departure time. (Tejas Sandhu/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images, File/Getty Images)

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“It is a mistake of at least £100,000 and has led to services being halted for the rest of the day,” the source told the outlet. “This error is not easy to achieve.”