{"id":324514,"date":"2025-08-07T06:32:29","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T06:32:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/324514\/"},"modified":"2025-08-07T06:32:29","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T06:32:29","slug":"bristol-bound-flight-forced-to-make-emergency-landing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/324514\/","title":{"rendered":"Bristol-bound flight forced to make emergency landing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A &#8216;general emergency&#8217; signal was raised<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/0_aircraft-Photo-by-Colin-Lane.jpg\" alt=\"Ryanair aircraft\" loading=\"eager\"  \/>Ryanair aircraft(Image: Colin Lane\/Liverpool Echo)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">A Ryanair flight heading to Bristol was forced to make an unscheduled landing at Cardiff Airport due to a reported &#8220;issue&#8221; with the aircraft.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Flight FR504, which left from Dublin Airport on Tuesday, August 5, was redirected to Cardiff following the detection of an issue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">A spokesperson for Ryanair said: &#8220;This flight from Dublin to Bristol (5 August) diverted to Cardiff due to a minor tech issue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">&#8220;The aircraft landed normally at Cardiff Airport and passengers disembarked.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">&#8220;To minimise disruption to passengers, we quickly arranged for alternative transport to bring them to <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bristolpost.co.uk\/all-about\/bristol-airport\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Bristol Airport<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">The Boeing 737 Max 8 aircraft took off from Dublin at 3.28pm, but made a landing in Cardiff shortly after a &#8220;general emergency&#8221; signal was issued.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">It is understood that the captain did not declare an emergency onboard, with the flight landing &#8220;normally&#8221;, reports <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.walesonline.co.uk\/news\/wales-news\/ryanair-flight-forced-land-cardiff-32209143\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Wales Online<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Cardiff Airport has been contacted for a comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A &#8216;general emergency&#8217; signal was raisedRyanair aircraft(Image: Colin Lane\/Liverpool Echo) A Ryanair flight heading to Bristol was forced&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":324515,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8818],"tags":[381,21283,748,393,4884,378,1339,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-324514","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bristol","8":"tag-bristol","9":"tag-bristol-airport","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-in-the-news","14":"tag-ryanair","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114986086769877802","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324514","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=324514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324514\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/324515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}