{"id":296118,"date":"2025-07-27T14:52:19","date_gmt":"2025-07-27T14:52:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/296118\/"},"modified":"2025-07-27T14:52:19","modified_gmt":"2025-07-27T14:52:19","slug":"flight-from-new-york-diverted-to-edinburgh-airport-due-to-a-mid-air-emergency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/296118\/","title":{"rendered":"Flight from New York diverted to Edinburgh Airport due to a &#8216;mid-air emergency&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Flight SK910 took off from New York last night but was forced to land in Scotland in the early hours of this morning.<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/1_JS375011787.jpg\" alt=\"edinburgh airport\" loading=\"eager\"  \/>The flight landed at Edinburgh Airport in the early hours of this morning. (Image: REACH PLC)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">A flight from New York Newark Liberty International Airport set for Copenhagen Airport in Denmark was diverted to <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyrecord.co.uk\/all-about\/edinburgh-airport\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Edinburgh Airport Link opens in a new tab.\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Edinburgh Airport <\/a>due to an on-board emergency<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">The Scandinavian Airlines <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyrecord.co.uk\/all-about\/edinburgh-airport\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"flightLink opens in a new tab.\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">flight<\/a> set off from the States on Saturday, July 26 at 7.58pm, almost three hours after it was due to depart.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">While flight SK910 was supposed to land in Denmark, it was diverted to the Scottish airport and landed in Edinburgh at around 6.27am, <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.edinburghlive.co.uk\/news\/edinburgh-news\/international-flight-diverted-edinburgh-airport-32144636\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"reports Edinburgh Live.Link opens in a new tab.\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">reports Edinburgh Live.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Reports on social media suggested that the plane was showing a <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyrecord.co.uk\/all-about\/edinburgh-airport\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"squawk codeLink opens in a new tab.\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">squawk code<\/a> of 7700, a specific code that indicates to air traffic control that there is a general emergency onboard.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">The exact nature of the <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyrecord.co.uk\/all-about\/edinburgh-airport\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"mid-air emergencyLink opens in a new tab.\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">mid-air emergency<\/a> is not yet known at this stage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \"><a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyrecord.co.uk\/all-about\/edinburgh-airport\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Scandinavian AirlinesLink opens in a new tab.\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Scandinavian Airlines<\/a> has been approached for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Flight SK910 took off from New York last night but was forced to land in Scotland in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":296119,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8816],"tags":[13133,748,1102,11500,4884,712,1263,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-296118","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-edinburgh","8":"tag-air-travel","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-edinburgh","11":"tag-edinburgh-airport","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-scotland","14":"tag-transport","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114925767878886416","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296118","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=296118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296118\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/296119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}