A PASSENGER plane bound for a Scottish airport was forced to make an emergency landing after a mid-air alert.
The Jet2 flight EXS776 / LS776 was travelling from Alicante in Spain to Edinburgh when it signalled the alarm shortly before 9.30pm on Sunday.
It declared a "Squawk 7700" while flying north towards Scotland around two hours after taking off at 7.33pm.
Live Squawk 7700: Track EXS776 live now with Plane Finder https://t.co/HVyfiP83GG #avgeek #EXS776 pic.twitter.com/RTNkErpR5v
— Plane Finder (@planefinder) February 6, 2022
An emergency squawk is used to identify an aircraft that has a possible issue and enables it to have priority over other air traffic.
Jet2 has since confirmed to The Herald that the alarm was raised after a passenger required medical attention.
Footage from flight radar app Plane Finder showed the plane did not make it to Edinburgh, instead making a rapid emergency descent into Manchester.
It landed at around 9.37pm.
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