Airline Industry: Faulty alarms caused Virgin Atlantic London emergency

A faulty alarm system forced a Virgin Atlantic plane to make an emergency landing earlier this week, the company said Friday.

The airline said that an investigation into the incident - when a plane flying from Britain to Orlando, Florida, returned to London's Gatwick Airport for an emergency landing - showed that a series of alarms went off during the flight, prompting the crew to decide to return to the airport.

It said the investigation found that the alarms had gone off unnecessarily and that there had been nothing wrong with the plane, an Airbus 330-300.

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