Transatlantic flight dumps fuel over the English Channel after technical problems

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A Transatlantic flight from Heathrow has is dumping fuel over the English Channel because of technical problems.

United Airlines flight UA28 left Heathrow for Newark forty minutes late at 11.04.

Flight radar tracking websites show the Boeing 767 suddenly changing course near Reading.

The airliner is now in a 'racetrack' holding pattern south of Bournemouth at 12,000 feet.