{"id":684204,"date":"2026-01-09T09:50:17","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T09:50:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/684204\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T09:50:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T09:50:17","slug":"boeing-777-forced-to-make-emergency-landing-at-glasgow-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/684204\/","title":{"rendered":"Boeing 777 forced to make emergency landing at Glasgow Airport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  The KLM flight from Amsterdam to Toronto was diverted to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.glasgowtimes.co.uk\/news\/25178381.glasgow-airport-news-interviews-updates\/?ref=au\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Glasgow Airport<\/a> on Thursday, after likely declaring a general emergency, known as a &#8220;7700 squawk,&#8221; mid-flight.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The Boeing 777, operating as flight KL691, had departed Amsterdam Schiphol at approximately 1.20pm UK time, bound for Toronto Pearson International Airport.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  About an hour into its journey, flight tracking data showed the aircraft entering a holding pattern above Lanarkshire before diverting to Glasgow.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The plane landed safely at approximately 2.50pm.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  KLM has shared with our sister title the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heraldscotland.com\/news\/25750434.klm-flight-amsterdam-toronto-diverts-glasgow\/?ref=ed_direct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Herald<\/a>, that the flight had to be diverted to Glasgow Airport due to a medical emergency.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The aircraft later continued its journey to Toronto, departing Glasgow at around 4.15pm.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The 7700 squawk code is a squawk code that is reserved for emergency situations.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  When broadcast by an aircraft&#8217;s transponder, it alerts Air Traffic Control (ATC) and other units that the aircraft squawking 7700 is in distress.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The code can be entered by pilots or instructed by air traffic controllers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The KLM flight from Amsterdam to Toronto was diverted to Glasgow Airport on Thursday, after likely declaring a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":153131,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7826],"tags":[748,918,4884,712,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-684204","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-glasgow","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-glasgow","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-scotland","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115864523547965136","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684204","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=684204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684204\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/153131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=684204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=684204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=684204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}