{"id":748349,"date":"2026-02-07T11:33:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T11:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/748349\/"},"modified":"2026-02-07T11:33:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T11:33:10","slug":"edinburgh-easyjet-flight-forced-to-divert-after-mid-air-emergency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/748349\/","title":{"rendered":"Edinburgh easyJet flight forced to divert after mid-air &#8217;emergency&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">An <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edinburghlive.co.uk\/news\/edinburgh-news\/edinburgh-easyjet-passenger-who-targeted-33375180\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:easyJet;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">easyJet<\/a> flight to France which departed from Edinburgh on Saturday morning was forced to divert after an emergency was declared mid-air. Flight EZY52GV landed in Manchester just over an hour after taking off.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">It left the capital slightly later than scheduled at 7.14am on February 7, bound for Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport. However, a squawk 7700 was issued by the captain, signalling a general emergency.<\/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\">According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edinburghlive.co.uk\/news\/edinburgh-news\/airline-launched-edinburgh-goes-bust-33367339\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:data;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">data<\/a> from online tracker Flightradar24, the plane circled south of Manchester before heading north to land at the city&#8217;s airport at 8.23am.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The nature of the incident is currently unknown. However, it is understood that ground vehicles including fire engines surrounded the aircraft after it arrived.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">It comes just four days after the same squawk code was issued on board an easyJet flight from Edinburgh to Fuerteventura, which had to <a href=\"https:\/\/uk.news.yahoo.com\/edinburgh-easyjet-flight-forced-divert-135748559.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:divert to Portugal;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">divert to Portugal<\/a> on Tuesday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">After around two hours of cruising at 38,000ft, the aircraft squawked and diverted to Porto Airport, landing at around 1.30pm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">easyJet has been contacted for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An easyJet flight to France which departed from Edinburgh on Saturday morning was forced to divert after an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":748350,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8816],"tags":[748,1011,1102,220807,4884,712,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-748349","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-flight-to-france","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-scotland","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116029135687958655","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748349","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=748349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748349\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/748350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=748349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=748349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=748349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}