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Air Canada flight from Toronto to Israel diverted due to oxygen system issue

An Air Canada Boeing 777-300ER wide-body jetliner takes off from Vancouver International Airport, Richmond, B.C. on Feb. 16. (File photo). Bayne Stanley/The Canadian Press

Air Canada says a flight travelling from Toronto’s Pearson International Airport to Tel Aviv, Israel has completed its trip after being diverted to London as a precautionary measure due to an issue with the pilot’s oxygen system.

Spokesman Peter Fitzpatrick said Monday that flight AC 84 was diverted late Sunday after the issue with the back-up oxygen system was discovered.

He said the oxygen was not in use and that the flight diverted south of Ireland to London’s Heathrow Airport as a precaution.

Online flight data shows the plane departed Pearson around 5:30 p.m. and changed course around 10 p.m.

Fitzpatrick said the plane, which carried 252 passengers, has since landed in Tel Aviv.

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