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<\/p>\nA packed holiday jet heading from London Stansted to the Canary Islands has been diverted to Portugal following a red alert.<\/p>\n
The Jet2 Boeing 737 was on its way to Fuerteventura but instead is scheduled to land shortly at Faro Airport on the Algarve.\u201d<\/p>\n
One local source said the airplane had suffered possible engine failure but this has not yet been confirmed by officials or Jet2.<\/p>\n
The flight, EXS83LV, was scheduled to land in Fuerteventura at 12.15pm local time after departing London Stansted just before 8am.<\/p>\n
Emergency services including paramedics and firefighters are understood to have been put on standby at Faro Airport as part of protocol red alert procedure.<\/p>\n
Civil Protection said 35 vehicles and more than 80 responders had been mobilised, including their workers, police, ambulances and firefighters.<\/p>\n
Squawk Alert, which follows commercial airlines that declare emergencies, said on X: “The crew of Jet2 flight EXS83LV from London to Fuerteventura has declared an emergency and are diverting to Faro.”<\/p>\n
Another flight emergency site said: “Diverting to Faro due to a problem with engine number one.”<\/p>\n
The Jet2 flight had to be diverted (file pic)<\/p>\n
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Local reports say 179 people were on the plane and the red alert was sounded at 10.24am local time, around half an hour before it touched down.<\/p>\n
A Jet2 spokesman said: “The crew operating flight LS1451 from London Stansted to Fuerteventura followed standard operating procedure and elected to divert to Faro earlier today, after reporting an irregular indication.<\/p>\n
“The crew requested a priority landing and the aircraft landed safely. A standby aircraft is being flown to Faro so that customers can continue their journey.”<\/p>\n
Jet2 confirmed there was no engine failure throughout the duration of the flight.<\/p>\n
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A Ryanair flight had to be diverted due to a toilet malfunction<\/p>\n
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Earlier this month a plane packed with returning UK tourists had to divert following mid-air toilet malfunction. <\/p>\n
Ryanair flight FR1667 should have reached Bristol around 5pm on December 8 after departing from Fuerteventura at lunchtime.<\/p>\n
But it diverted to the neighbouring Canary Island of Lanzarote shortly into its 3.5 hour journey after “some toilets” stopped working according to local air traffic controllers.<\/p>\n
It was not immediately clear this morning what exactly the problem, which in the past has led to passengers being forced to use bottles to relieve themselves, had been.<\/p>\n
The plane touched down in Lanzarote just before 3pm on December 8 after an hour and a half up in the air.<\/p>\n
Spanish air traffic controllers said on social media: “The flight crew on a plane from Fuerteventura to Bristol asked to return to Lanzarote because of problems with some of the toilets. It landed without problems.”<\/p>\n
Five days earlier a Jet2 flight from Edinburgh to Tenerife had to be given priority landing after a cabin crew member was attacked by a passenger.<\/p>\n
Air traffic controllers at Tenerife South Airport allowed the pilot to shorten the plane’s journey “as much as possible” as it landed.<\/p>\n
The crew asked for medical assistance and police to meet the plane when it touched down.<\/p>\n
A Jet2 spokesman said afterwards: “We can confirm that police were called to offload a disruptive passenger from flight LS739.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A packed holiday jet heading from London Stansted to the Canary Islands has been diverted to Portugal following…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":638439,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7757],"tags":[113921,748,393,4884,257,12,104,16,15,263],"class_list":{"0":"post-638438","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-london","8":"tag-across-the-uk","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-london","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-spain","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom","17":"tag-world-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115735776654913286","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638438","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=638438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638438\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/638439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=638438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=638438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=638438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}