{"id":572460,"date":"2025-11-15T17:37:27","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T17:37:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/572460\/"},"modified":"2025-11-15T17:37:27","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T17:37:27","slug":"edinburgh-easyjet-flight-met-by-paramedics-as-pilot-declares-emergency-on-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/572460\/","title":{"rendered":"Edinburgh easyJet flight met by paramedics as pilot declares emergency on-board"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">An Edinburgh easyJet pilot declared an emergency onboard a flight on Friday evening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Flight EZY3242 from Paris Charles de Gaulle to the Scottish capital set off after 5pm and landed in Edinburgh just before 6.30pm on November 14.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">According to flight tracking website FlightRadar24, the pilot squawked a 7700 code while in the descent phase of the journey &#8211; signalling a general emergency onboard.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The aircraft was met by paramedics due to a passenger seeking medical assistance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">FlightRadar24 wrote on X: &#8220;#U23242 from Paris to Edinburgh squawking 7700 on descent into Edinburgh.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><b>Join<\/b> <a href=\"https:\/\/chat.whatsapp.com\/DBFongo3zQS6P8RfPA1ryO\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Edinburgh Live&#039;s Whatsapp Community here;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">  <b> Edinburgh Live&#8217;s Whatsapp Community here <\/b> <\/a> <b>and get the latest news sent<\/b> <b>straight to your messages.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">An easyJet spokesperson said: &#8220;easyJet can confirm that flight EZY3242 from Paris Charles de Gaulle to Edinburgh on 14 November was met by paramedics due to a passenger requiring urgent medical assistance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;The well-being of our passengers and crew is always easyJet&#8217;s highest priority and our crew are trained to evaluate and respond to medical situations onboard.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Edinburgh easyJet pilot declared an emergency onboard a flight on Friday evening. Flight EZY3242 from Paris Charles&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":572461,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8816],"tags":[748,1011,1102,4884,89646,712,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-572460","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-edinburgh","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-easyjet","10":"tag-edinburgh","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-paris-charles-de-gaulle","13":"tag-scotland","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115554932993403493","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572460","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=572460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572460\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/572461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=572460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=572460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=572460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}