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<\/p>\nA Jet2 flight from Scotland to Spain was forced to divert more than 600 miles from its original destination after a passenger suffered a medical emergency on board.<\/p>\n
Flight LS167 departed Glasgow Airport at 3.17pm on Wednesday, scheduled to land in Lanzarote at 7.50pm local time. <\/p>\n
However, flight tracking data showed the Boeing 737-800 changed course and diverted to Faro, Portugal, so the passenger could receive urgent medical attention.<\/p>\n
After landing in Faro, the passenger was taken off the aircraft to receive treatment before the flight continued to Lanzarote without further reported incident.<\/p>\n
Jet2 has not released further details about the passenger, or the nature of the emergency.<\/p>\n
Medical diversions are a routine safety measure in commercial aviation, allowing crews to ensure passengers receive prompt medical care when required, often compensating other passengers for the disturbance.<\/p>\n
The incident came as another mid-air emergency involving a Ryanair flight drew attention after an engine problem left passengers believing they might not survive.<\/p>\n
Ljubi\u0161a Karovi, 61, and his wife, Svetlana Grkovi, were travelling home to Serbia after a holiday in Greece when their Ryanair flight encountered difficulties shortly after departing Thessaloniki last Friday.<\/p>\n
Jet2 has not released further details about the passenger, or the nature of the emergency<\/p>\n
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According to reports, the aircraft took off at around 5.55am local time, before the captain detected a problem with one of the engines while flying over North Macedonia. <\/p>\n
The crew decided to turn the aircraft around and return to Thessaloniki as a precaution.<\/p>\n
During the return journey, Ms Grkovi claimed part of the engine struck a cabin window next to where her husband was seated. <\/p>\n
Ryanair has confirmed that a window became dislodged during the flight, but has not publicly confirmed reports that engine debris caused the damage.<\/p>\n
Ms Grkovi alleged her husband was partially pulled towards the opening created by the damaged window due to cabin pressure. <\/p>\n
She said she immediately grabbed hold of his legs to stop him from being dragged further outside the aircraft.<\/p>\n
Speaking to Serbian outlet Nova, she described the terrifying experience, saying: “It was as if a part of the engine broke off and hit the window next to which my husband Ljubi\u0161a was sitting.<\/p>\n
“I reacted immediately and grabbed his legs. I thought ‘if we die, we die together.’ It was horrible.”<\/p>\n
The aircraft landed safely back in Thessaloniki, where emergency services were waiting to treat Mr Karovi for injuries sustained during the incident.<\/p>\n
The airline has not provided further details, while the incident remains under investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Jet2 flight from Scotland to Spain was forced to divert more than 600 miles from its original…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":697554,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[84,59,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-697553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-gb","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697553","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=697553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697553\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/697554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=697553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=697553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=697553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}