In the last few hours, an easyJet flight originally bound for Jersey had to make an emergency landing at it’s departure field of Glasgow Airport with a massive problem onboard.
Information is limited surrounding the incident at hand, but below is what we know on this at present.
Without further ado, let’s get into it…
easyJet Flight U2439 Glasgow-Jersey…
easyJet flight U2439, which made the emergency landing, is a routine scheduled flight between Glasgow Airport and Jersey Airport.
Furthermore, the aircraft involved in the incident was G-EZBI.
As per data from Planespotters.net, G-EZBI is a 19.3 year old Airbus A319 that was delivered to the airline back in February 2007.
Of the A319 variant, easyJet UK has 44 in their fleet, of which 41 are in active service, and 3 are parked, with an average fleet age of 17.6 years.
As well as the A319, easyJet UK has the following other aircraft in their fleet:
- 132 Airbus A320 aircraft.
- 13 Airbus A321neo aircraft.
In total, the UK subsidiary has 189 aircraft in it’s fleet, of which 178 are in active service, and 11 are parked, offering an average fleet age of 11.6 years.
easyJet flight U2439, which made the emergency landing, departed Glasgow Airport at 1207 UTC on March 29th, and initially climbed out towards Jersey.
However, not too long after departure, the aircraft made a u-turn back to the Scottish airport, squawking the 7700 squawk code as well.
The aircraft landed safely without further incident not long after departure from the Scottish airport.
Crew Injury Is The Reason for the Emergency…
As per @FlightEmergency on X, the reason for the emergency onboard easyJet flight U2439 Glasgow-Jersey was due to a crew member getting injured on departure.
No further information into the nature of the injuries have been revealed as of yet, but is clearly serious enough to force a return back to the Scottish airport.
Data from Flightradar24 highlights that the aircraft, G-EZBI, will reattempt the flight down to Jersey later on this afternoon before continuing it’s usual days operation today.
As soon as we have more information pertinent to this incident, then we will update you accordingly.
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