{"id":694341,"date":"2026-01-14T01:31:19","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T01:31:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/694341\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T01:31:19","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T01:31:19","slug":"edinburgh-passengers-forced-to-disembark-plane-after-wing-hits-temporary-light-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/694341\/","title":{"rendered":"Edinburgh passengers forced to &#8216;disembark&#8217; plane after wing hits temporary light"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Edinburgh <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edinburghlive.co.uk\/all-about\/edinburgh-airport\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:passengers;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">passengers <\/a>onboard a flight to Bristol were forced to disembark their flight after the wing sustained &#8220;minor damage&#8221; during pushback. It is understood that as the plane was leaving the gate and heading to the runway, the wing of the plane hit a temporary light.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">As a result, the 1.15pm <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edinburghlive.co.uk\/all-about\/edinburgh-airport\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:flight;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">flight <\/a>on Tuesday, January 13, was delayed as passengers disembarked the aircraft, returned to their gates and a replacement plane was sourced.<\/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\">An EasyJet spokesperson confirmed: \u201cWe can confirm that flight EZY218 from Edinburgh to Bristol this afternoon was delayed on departure after one of the aircraft\u2019s wings experienced some minor damage during pushback.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cThe aircraft returned to stand and customers disembarked into the terminal while we arranged a replacement aircraft to operate the flight, which has now departed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cThe safety of our passengers and crew is our highest priority and we are sorry for any inconvenience caused by the delay.&#8221;  <\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The delayed flight took off from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edinburghlive.co.uk\/all-about\/edinburgh-airport\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Edinburgh Airport;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Edinburgh Airport<\/a> at 3.20pm and landed in Bristol two hours later than expected at approximately 4.32pm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Edinburgh Airport has been approached for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Edinburgh passengers onboard a flight to Bristol were forced to disembark their flight after the wing sustained &#8220;minor&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":694342,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8816],"tags":[748,209535,1102,11500,4884,209536,209537,712,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-694341","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-edinburgh","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-delayed-flight","10":"tag-edinburgh","11":"tag-edinburgh-airport","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-minor-damage","14":"tag-replacement-aircraft","15":"tag-scotland","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115890873191332571","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694341","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=694341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694341\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/694342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=694341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=694341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=694341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}