{"id":692926,"date":"2026-07-15T12:11:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T12:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/692926\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T12:11:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T12:11:08","slug":"several-flights-diverted-after-plane-blocks-gatwick-runway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/692926\/","title":{"rendered":"Several flights diverted after plane blocks Gatwick runway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A number of flights were diverted from Gatwick airport after a plane temporarily blocked one of its runways. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Emergency services met the British Airways plane as a precaution upon landing, following reports of a &#8220;technical fault&#8221; with the aircraft.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">One of the diverted planes, an already-delayed EasyJet flight from Rome to Gatwick, had to land at Stansted airport instead &#8211; and subsequently became stuck there because it was unable to find fuel.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Passengers were left on that plane for over two hours in the middle of the night before disembarking.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The BA plane which temporarily blocked the runway at Gatwick Airport reportedly experienced a landing gear issue. BA said the plane landed safely and passengers disembarked normally.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A London Gatwick spokesperson said: &#8220;Earlier this morning, the runway was closed for a short period due to a technical issue with an aircraft. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;As a result, a small number of flights were diverted, with the majority later returning to London Gatwick. As always, safety and security is our number one priority.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">There were a number of delays to arrivals and departures from Gatwick Airport on Wednesday, although it was not clear if these were connected to the earlier runway closure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A number of flights were diverted from Gatwick airport after a plane temporarily blocked one of its runways.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":692927,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[84,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-692926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=692926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692926\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/692927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=692926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=692926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=692926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}