{"id":459313,"date":"2025-09-29T02:26:22","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T02:26:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/459313\/"},"modified":"2025-09-29T02:26:22","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T02:26:22","slug":"tui-flight-diverted-to-birmingham-airport-after-declaring-mid-air-emergency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/459313\/","title":{"rendered":"TUI flight diverted to Birmingham Airport after declaring mid-air emergency"},"content":{"rendered":"

The TUI flight from Cardiff to Cyprus was forced to declare a mid-air emergency\"Flight(Image: Air Nav)<\/p>\n

Passengers on a TUI flight from the UK to Cyprus experienced a fright when an emergency was declared mid-flight.<\/p>\n

The Boeing 737, flight number TOM 6754, was en route to Paphos in Cyprus when the incident happened at 4.30pm on Sunday, shortly after takeoff from Cardiff.<\/p>\n

The plane had to be rerouted to Birmingham<\/a>, causing operations at Birmingham Airport<\/a> to be temporarily halted as emergency services prepared for its arrival.<\/p>\n

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Flight maps reveal that the aircraft circled Swansea Bay at roughly 3,000ft before ascending to 12,000ft and heading towards the West Midlands for landing.<\/p>\n

Passengers and crew were safely evacuated after the aircraft circled before landing at 5.30pm.<\/p>\n

The plane was greeted on the runway by four fire engines and other emergency vehicles, causing minor delays at Birmingham before it could taxi to a stand.<\/p>\n

A spokesperson for TUI reportedly stated: “To confirm, there was no engine failure. There was a bird strike after take-off and the diversion that followed was a precautionary routine procedure.”, reports the Mirror<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, a representative for Cardiff Airport said: “We are aware of an incident involving flight TOM6754 from Cardiff to Paphos.<\/p>\n

“The safety of our passengers is our number one priority. The aircraft diverted to Birmingham Airport (BHX) and landed safely at approximately 17:30.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The TUI flight from Cardiff to Cyprus was forced to declare a mid-air emergency(Image: Air Nav) Passengers on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":459314,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,11949,748,393,4884,3086,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-459313","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-tui","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115285222070517227","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459313","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=459313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459313\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/459314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=459313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=459313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=459313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}