Plane forced to land at Stansted Airport following 'medical emergency'

 
Emergency landing: an easyJet plane (Picture: PA)
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Alexandra Rucki30 December 2014

A plane was forced to land at Stansed Airport following an on-board medical emergency.

The easyJet flight, which was travelling from Geneva to Manchester, landed at the airport at about 10.30pm last night. It was due to land at Manchester Airport at 11.45pm.

An alarm was sounded as the plane flew over the English Channel and the pilot was forced to descend.

A spokeswoman for EasyJet told MailOnline: “EasyJet can confirm that flight EZY1954 from Geneva to Manchester diverted to Stansted due to a passenger on board requiring urgent medical assistance.

“The safety and wellbeing of our passengers and crew is easyJet's highest priority and the flight continued to Manchester once the passenger had been transferred to a local hospital.

“We apologise for any inconvenience experienced due to the diversion and resulting delay.”

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en">Must commend <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="https://twitter.com/easyJet" class="body-link" data-vars-item-name="BL-2929026-https://twitter.com/easyJet" data-vars-event-id="c23">@easyJet</a> staff on our flight home tonight. Dealt with the medical emergency &amp; subsequent diversion to Stansted very.....— Samuel Hainsworth (@Sam_the_dentist) <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="https://twitter.com/Sam_the_dentist/status/549735467005263872" class="body-link" data-vars-item-name="BL-2929026-https://twitter.com/Sam_the_dentist/status/549735467005263872" data-vars-event-id="c23">December 30, 2014</a>

The plane finally arrived at Manchester at midnight and the passenger was taken by ambulance to hospital.

Samuel Hainsworth, who was on board the flight, tweeted: “Must commend @easyJet staff on our flight home tonight. Dealt with the medical emergency and subsequent diversion to Stansted very professionally.”

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