{"id":819531,"date":"2026-10-31T07:54:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-31T07:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/819531\/"},"modified":"2026-10-31T07:54:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-31T07:54:10","slug":"jet2-flight-to-manchester-airport-diverts-to-croatia-after-on-board-emergency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/819531\/","title":{"rendered":"Jet2 flight to Manchester Airport diverts to Croatia after on-board emergency"},"content":{"rendered":"

The flight made an emergency landing following a ‘technical issue’<\/p>\n

A replacement aircraft was sent to collect passengers(Image: NurPhoto via Getty Images)<\/p>\n

A Jet2 plane travelling from Greece to Manchester Airport was suddenly diverted to Croatia due to a ‘technical issue’ with the aircraft. Flight LS1750 from Samos to Manchester had to make an emergency landing in Split on Friday (October 30).<\/p>\n

According to Jet2, the plane landed safely in the Croatian city with a replacement drafted in to transport people home.<\/p>\n

The flight had departed Samos at 1.38pm and was expected to arrive in Manchester at 3.30pm before the detour.<\/p>\n

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A spokesperson for Jet2 said: “Flight LS1750 from Samos to Manchester diverted to Split this afternoon (Friday 30th October) due to a technical issue.<\/p>\n

“The aircraft landed safely and a replacement aircraft is on its way to Split to fly customers home.<\/p>\n

“The health, safety and well-being of everyone onboard will always be our number one priority and we would of course like to sincerely apologise to customers for this experience.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The flight made an emergency landing following a ‘technical issue’ A replacement aircraft was sent to collect passengers(Image:…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":819532,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[84,59,2043,10801,2200,387,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-819531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-gb","tag-greece","tag-jet2-com","tag-manchester-airport","tag-travel","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819531","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=819531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819531\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/819532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=819531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=819531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=819531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}