It was diverting to Dublin but now looks to be returning to London Gatwick. An altitude below 10,000ft that far out might indicate a pressurisation problem or an attempt to burn excess fuel.
Passed over my house in Galway too, it was very loud, I live on a flight path and never heard anything like it flying over before, it was flying at just 8500 ft 🙈
Went as far as Cardiff and now turned around back to Dublin, wtf is going on? 10K ft is very low for that size of plane.
Passed over our house in Galway too. Very low. Somethings definitely wrong.
Currently most tracked flight on Flightradar.
Ironic coming from Kingston and not flying high
Probally technical issue with pressurisation which forces them to fly low
Pilots Shouldn’t toke till over the ocean
Would not want to be a passenger on that
Could be a chicken? “BAW23K!!”
All started over Achill. Shame I wasn’t down for the weekend. Why didn’t it divert to knock or Shannon?
Fighting low under 10k feet may mean that they have a problem with cabin pressurisation.
Basically, there is no oxygen if they fly any higher.
Not a problem that they would need to land right the way so they are probably returning to their departing airport.
Edit: they did not land as soon they have this because they want to burn fuel to be able to land. As you can imagine, fighting to the USA needs a lot of it.
Flew over here in Wexford very low. Tracked it all the way back to Gatwick. 4 hrs 35 mins after takeoff, back to where they started.
I’m in Laois too
I don’t know if they changed the international flight routes in the last year or so but there has been a number of planes flying sub 10000 feet above my house each week now
There’s one that flies Boston into Dublin and it’s entry is as low as 6000 feet over my house in laois, it’s super noisy not that I care it only lasts 5 minutes but it’s cool to see so many jumbo jets flying low over my house
OP do you ever notice the Air Corp flying routes over your home too? Once a week there is a jet from the Air Corp that does massive loops going directly over my house once or twice a week
Why is a flight to Jamaica even flying over Ireland in the first place? Usual route takes it south of Ireland altogether
It’s a weird one – if it wasn’t an issue with pressurization I guess a passenger had a pulmonary/cardiac issue and they needed to get to 10K for blood O2 reasons
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All you country folk acting like planes are a new thing. 8500ft is still pretty high up.
Lies in the shkies
I’m terrified of flying, but still do it. If I was on that plane I would have passed out from sheer terror. Hope everyone was ok after.
The ra hijacked it
Looks like they were thinking of landing in Knock.
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Search the flight number in Twitter. No confirmation yet of what the issue is.
edit: [Medical emergency on board](https://twitter.com/AirportWebcams/status/1613940548557049862)
It was diverting to Dublin but now looks to be returning to London Gatwick. An altitude below 10,000ft that far out might indicate a pressurisation problem or an attempt to burn excess fuel.
Passed over my house in Galway too, it was very loud, I live on a flight path and never heard anything like it flying over before, it was flying at just 8500 ft 🙈
Went as far as Cardiff and now turned around back to Dublin, wtf is going on? 10K ft is very low for that size of plane.
Passed over our house in Galway too. Very low. Somethings definitely wrong.
Currently most tracked flight on Flightradar.
Ironic coming from Kingston and not flying high
Probally technical issue with pressurisation which forces them to fly low
Pilots Shouldn’t toke till over the ocean
Would not want to be a passenger on that
Could be a chicken? “BAW23K!!”
All started over Achill. Shame I wasn’t down for the weekend. Why didn’t it divert to knock or Shannon?
Fighting low under 10k feet may mean that they have a problem with cabin pressurisation.
Basically, there is no oxygen if they fly any higher.
Not a problem that they would need to land right the way so they are probably returning to their departing airport.
Edit: they did not land as soon they have this because they want to burn fuel to be able to land. As you can imagine, fighting to the USA needs a lot of it.
Flew over here in Wexford very low. Tracked it all the way back to Gatwick. 4 hrs 35 mins after takeoff, back to where they started.
I’m in Laois too
I don’t know if they changed the international flight routes in the last year or so but there has been a number of planes flying sub 10000 feet above my house each week now
There’s one that flies Boston into Dublin and it’s entry is as low as 6000 feet over my house in laois, it’s super noisy not that I care it only lasts 5 minutes but it’s cool to see so many jumbo jets flying low over my house
OP do you ever notice the Air Corp flying routes over your home too? Once a week there is a jet from the Air Corp that does massive loops going directly over my house once or twice a week
Why is a flight to Jamaica even flying over Ireland in the first place? Usual route takes it south of Ireland altogether
It’s a weird one – if it wasn’t an issue with pressurization I guess a passenger had a pulmonary/cardiac issue and they needed to get to 10K for blood O2 reasons
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All you country folk acting like planes are a new thing. 8500ft is still pretty high up.
Lies in the shkies
I’m terrified of flying, but still do it. If I was on that plane I would have passed out from sheer terror. Hope everyone was ok after.
The ra hijacked it
Looks like they were thinking of landing in Knock.