A passenger on board a plane packed with British travellers suffered a medical emergency mid-flight, forcing emergency services to land.
An alarm was raised on the Jet2 plane after a passenger began experiencing “serious medical problems.”
Aircraft travelling from London Stansted to Tenerife South were given priority on the Spanish runway, having to land on the opposite side of the island after an emergency.
The flight staff contacted air traffic controllers.
The flight staff contacted air traffic controllers on Friday and said, “They [required] passengers with serious medical issues on board will be given priority.”
“We are shortening their arrival route, diverting traffic from the east of the island instead of the west,” he said.
The flight landed just before 2.30 pm.
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The crew and unwell passenger received medical attention upon landing.
Air traffic controllers wished “the passenger a speedy recovery”.
No further details have been released about the passenger or their condition.
The emergency follows another mid-air incident earlier in the week, where holidaymakers claimed an already dead elderly British woman was carried on board an easyJet flight.
The plane, travelling from Málaga to Gatwick, overturned before leaving the runway and the flight was delayed for 12 hours.
“I saw him getting on the plane; someone was holding his head as they walked past me,” fellow British passenger Tracey-Ann Kitching expressed angrily on social media.
He wrote, “A real doctor confirmed that she was already dead when they laid her down in her seat.”
EasyJet has insisted that the passengers were at fault, as the unwell passenger had a fit-to-fly certificate at the time of take-off.
The airline said she was alive at the time.
A spokesman for the Civil Guard in Málaga said the woman was declared dead after boarding the plane.
“Officers were asked to board the plane with other emergency responders after an elderly British woman suffered a heart attack on board a plane at Málaga Airport,” the spokesperson said.
“He was pronounced dead on board the plane just after 11 a.m. on December 18.”
