{"id":620574,"date":"2025-12-08T18:29:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T18:29:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/620574\/"},"modified":"2025-12-08T18:29:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T18:29:12","slug":"edinburgh-airport-live-flights-suspended-after-ba-plane-makes-emergency-landing-uk-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/620574\/","title":{"rendered":"Edinburgh Airport LIVE: Flights suspended after BA plane makes emergency landing | UK | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A British Airways flight bound for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/heathrow-airport\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|AutoLink\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Heathrow Airport<\/a> declared a &#8220;general emergency&#8221; right after departing Edinburgh Airport (EDI) and is now parked on the runway, stopping other flights from landing.<\/p>\n<p>According to flight tracking site Flightradar24, the flight &#8211; BA1443 &#8211; was scheduled to leave Scotland at 11am on Monday (December 8), but departed just under 15 minutes late.<\/p>\n<p>Just minutes into the flight, the Airbus A320 squawked 7700 &#8211; the universal aviation transponder code for a general emergency.<\/p>\n<p>The aircraft, with the registration G-EUUI, then circled at around 6,500 feet above the city of Stirling in a holding pattern for around 35 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>The flight then returned to\u00a0Edinburgh, touching down just after 12.15pm on Monday.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A British Airways flight bound for Heathrow Airport declared a &#8220;general emergency&#8221; right after departing Edinburgh Airport (EDI)&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":620575,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8816],"tags":[193148,11501,748,3087,1102,11500,6962,193147,156999,193151,4884,193149,3113,193150,712,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-620574","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-edinburgh","8":"tag-airbus-a320","9":"tag-aircraft","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-british-airways","12":"tag-edinburgh","13":"tag-edinburgh-airport","14":"tag-emergency-news","15":"tag-emergency-squawk-7700","16":"tag-flightradar24","17":"tag-general-emergency","18":"tag-great-britain","19":"tag-landing-gear","20":"tag-plane","21":"tag-return-to-edinburgh","22":"tag-scotland","23":"tag-uk","24":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115685370373487760","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620574","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=620574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620574\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/620575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=620574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=620574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=620574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}