A holiday jet has diverted to Shannon Airport with an ill passenger, the fourth medical emergency at the airport in just a week.
A holiday jet has diverted to Shannon Airport with an ill passenger, the fourth medical emergency at the airport in just a week.
TUI flight TOM-24 was was travelling from London Gatwick Airport to Bridgetown, Barbados when the crew declared an emergency at around 10.45am.
The Boeing 787-900 jet was about 250 kilometres south of Cork when the crew requested clearance to divert to Shannon reporting they had an elderly lady on board who was ‘unresponsive’.
The flight diverted to Shannon where it landed safely at 11.33am. The aircraft was met by airport fire crews who accompanied the jet to the terminal where National Ambulance Service paramedics were also standing by.
The woman, believed to be in her 70’s, was removed to University Hospital Limerick for treatment.
This mornings diversion was the fifth unscheduled landing at Shannon have dealt with over the holiday period including four medical emergencies.
On Christmas Eve a 10-year-old girl died on a flight from Toronto to London that diverted to Shannon while on Christmas Day an EL AL flight from Israel to the US was forced to make an unscheduled landing after a woman suffered a suspected miscarriage.
Early yesterday, a British Airways flight from Miami to London declared a medical emergency and diverted to Shannon.
