{"id":135469,"date":"2025-05-27T08:38:11","date_gmt":"2025-05-27T08:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/135469\/"},"modified":"2025-05-27T08:38:11","modified_gmt":"2025-05-27T08:38:11","slug":"flight-to-jersey-diverted-back-to-birmingham-airport-for-emergency-landing-after-technical-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/135469\/","title":{"rendered":"Flight to Jersey diverted back to Birmingham Airport for emergency landing after &#8216;technical issue&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Blue Islands plane took off at 3pm on Sunday carrying around 70 passengers, but had to return shortly afterwards in strong winds.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/16e29b1f-f8a3-4540-a384-ff88e5d111ca.jpg\"   alt=\"Birmingham Airport\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"w-full max-w-none\"\/>A flight from Birmingham Airport to Jersey was diverted back after a &#8216;technical issue&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Nobody was injured in the incident and a spokesperson for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blueislands.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Blue Islands\u00a0<\/a>said the safety of its passengers, crew and aircraft was its highest priority.<\/p>\n<p>The statement said: &#8221; The plane&#8217;s crew followed standard operating procedures and passengers disembarked normally.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The flight&#8217;s crew received a cockpit indication of a &#8220;technical issue&#8221; and followed procedure in dealing with it and shut down the engine as a precaution.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The engine at no time stopped working in any uncontrolled way.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It added the procedures have an abundance of caution built into them to ensure passenger safety.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for<a href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghamairport.co.uk\/parking\/?gad_source=1&amp;gad_campaignid=9237067662&amp;gbraid=0AAAAADjsuFHVyLF-vQ5q7XJiBXI1gN2Ri&amp;gclid=Cj0KCQjwxdXBBhDEARIsAAUkP6iRVJvHcZ_3bKRxRnHO21ar4UgII_JlHToaj1JBzB7QOXQjEh2Xs9AaAtSOEALw_wcB\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u00a0Birmingham Airport\u00a0<\/a>said one flight was diverted, but no other restrictions were placed on the runway as a result of the landing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Blue Islands plane took off at 3pm on Sunday carrying around 70 passengers, but had to return&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37644,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,393,4884,379,12,1263,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-135469","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-birmingham","8":"tag-birmingham","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-local-hubs","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-transport","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114578895947716362","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135469\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}