{"id":209401,"date":"2025-06-24T04:02:13","date_gmt":"2025-06-24T04:02:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/209401\/"},"modified":"2025-06-24T04:02:13","modified_gmt":"2025-06-24T04:02:13","slug":"birmingham-airport-ryanair-flight-forced-to-return-to-city-after-mid-air-emergency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/209401\/","title":{"rendered":"Birmingham Airport Ryanair flight forced to return to city after mid-air emergency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Flight FR1121 to Tenerife South rerouted back to BHX after a medical incident onboard on Sunday, June 22<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/1_JS226864902jpgmultiple.jpg\" alt=\"Ryanair has cancelled multiple flights\" loading=\"eager\"  \/>A Ryanair flight at Birmingham Airport (Image: Jacob King\/PA Wire)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">A Ryanair flight from Birmingham Airport was forced to return to the city after a mid-air emergency.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Flight FR1121 to Tenerife South was rerouted back to BHX after a medical incident onboard the plane.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Emergency services rushed to the tarmac to meet the <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/all-about\/ryanair\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">budget airliner <\/a>yesterday (Sunday, June 22).<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \"><strong class=\"Strong_strong__e2x35\">READ MORE: <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/news\/midlands-news\/bullring-international-pickpocket-gang-caught-31911751\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Bullring international pickpocket gang caught preying on Birmingham shoppers<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \"><strong class=\"Strong_strong__e2x35\">READ MORE: <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/news\/midlands-news\/air-india-flight-birmingham-diverted-31912175\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Air India flight from Birmingham diverted over bomb threat<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \"><strong class=\"Strong_strong__e2x35\">READ MORE: <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/news\/midlands-news\/shababs-curry-house-fire-latest-31912689\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Shababs curry house fire latest as emergency services issue full statements<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \"><strong class=\"Strong_strong__e2x35\">READ MORE: <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/news\/midlands-news\/cocaine-courier-busted-4m-drugs-31895902\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Cocaine courier busted with \u00a34m drugs marked &#8216;king&#8217; after traffic police stop<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">BirminghamLive has approached <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/all-about\/ryanair\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Ryanair<\/a> and <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/all-about\/west-midlands-ambulance-service\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">West Midlands Ambulance Service<\/a> for further comment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">The 189-seater Boeing 737-800 had been scheduled to leave <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Birmingham<\/a> at 3.35pm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \"><strong class=\"Strong_strong__e2x35\">Get breaking news on <\/strong><a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/chat.whatsapp.com\/FJKVhwxllixI0DiCj9e2sk\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"[object Object]Link opens in a new tab.\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong class=\"Strong_strong__e2x35\">BirminghamLive WhatsApp<\/strong><\/a>, <strong class=\"Strong_strong__e2x35\">click the link to join<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Flight data showed it then returned to the airport.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">A <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/all-about\/birmingham-airport\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Birmingham Airport<\/a> spokesman told BirminghamLive: \u201cDue to a medical emergency on board, an aircraft returned shortly after take-off.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">&#8220;Our on-site fire service responded to this as a precaution and part of our procedures for an unplanned landing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">The flight had been scheduled to depart again to the Canary Island after 8pm to make the four hour and 23 minute journey.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">It would then have arrived in Tenerife after midnight today (Monday, June 23).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Flight FR1121 to Tenerife South rerouted back to BHX after a medical incident onboard on Sunday, June 22A&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":209402,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,11949,748,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-209401","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-birmingham","8":"tag-birmingham","9":"tag-birmingham-airport","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209401","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=209401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209401\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}