{"id":12648,"date":"2026-04-13T04:36:27","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T04:36:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/12648\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T04:36:27","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T04:36:27","slug":"ryanair-fr5552-from-london-declared-an-emergency-over-brittany-and-diverted-to-bournemouth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/12648\/","title":{"rendered":"Ryanair FR5552 from London declared an emergency over Brittany and diverted to\u00a0Bournemouth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Ryanair flight bound for Portugal was forced to make an emergency landing in Dorset early this morning after declaring a mid-air emergency over Northern France.<\/p>\n<p>BOURNEMOUTH \u2013 Flight FR5552 departed London Stansted Airport at 06:21 BST, heading for Faro. The aircraft, a Boeing 737-800 (registration <a href=\"https:\/\/www.airnavradar.com\/data\/registration\/9H-QBS\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">9H-QBS<\/a>), had reached its cruising altitude of 37,000 feet and was passing over the Brittany region of France when the crew encountered an unspecified technical issue.<\/p>\n<p>At approximately 45 minutes into the journey, the pilots transmitted a Squawk 7700 (the international signal for a general emergency) and initiated a rapid descent.<\/p>\n<p>Diversion to Bournemouth<\/p>\n<p>Rather than returning to the busy airspace of London Stansted, the flight crew opted to divert to Bournemouth Airport (BOH). Radar tracking showed the aircraft performing a sharp turn back toward the English coast, descending quickly to ensure a safe landing.<\/p>\n<p>The aircraft touched down safely in Bournemouth just over an hour after its initial departure. Emergency services are typically on standby for such landings as a standard precautionary measure.<\/p>\n<p>Medical emergency<\/p>\n<p>According to our source, the diversion was due to a medical emergency on board. The flight is currently preparing to takeoff to get the passengers to their final destination in Portugal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Ryanair flight bound for Portugal was forced to make an emergency landing in Dorset early this morning&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12649,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[5969,5970,5971,5972,27],"class_list":{"0":"post-12648","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-london","8":"tag-9h-qbs","9":"tag-boh","10":"tag-fr","11":"tag-fr5552","12":"tag-london"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@UnitedKingdom\/116395545831529551","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12648\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}