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Passengers describe 'surreal' scramble to reach first government flight out of Middle East

The UK evacuated Britons amid US-Israeli and Iranian strikes, with over 140,000 registered in the region and 4,000 returned on commercial flights, government said.

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The plane landed at London's Stansted Airport in the early hours of Friday morning.

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First government flight bringing Britons home from Middle East lands at Stansted

A flight which was chartered by government to bring stranded Britons back from the Middle East has landed at Stansted Airport.

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The first government repatriation flight for British citizens who wanted to leave the Middle East landed on Friday morning in the British Sea. The action comes at the bottom of the expansion of the conflict in the region, generating an urgent need for evacuation. The flight, operated by Titan Airways, landed on Thursday after midnight from the capital of the Human, Muscat. After a scale for realization in Egypt, [...]

·Romania
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ITV broke the news in London, United Kingdom on Thursday, March 5, 2026.
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