In the last 30 minutes, a British Airways flight from London Heathrow declared an emergency on it’s descent into Edinburgh Airport.
Information is slowly coming through regarding the incident at hand.
Without further ado, let’s get into it…
British Airways Flight BA1458 London to Edinburgh…
British Airways flight BA1458, which declared the emergency, is a routine scheduled flight between London Heathrow and Edinburgh.
Furthermore, the aircraft involved in the incident was G-EUYW.
As per data from Planespotters.net, G-EUYW is a 12.0 year old Airbus A320ceo that was delivered to the airline back in June 2014.
Of the A320ceo variant, British Airways has 60 of them in their fleet.
Moreover, of the 60, 58 are in active service, and two are parked, with an average fleet age of 19.2 years.
As well as the A320ceo, British Airways has the following other aircraft in their fleet:
- 22 Airbus A319s.
- 33 Airbus A320neos.
- 31 Airbus A321s.
- 18 Airbus A350s.
- 12 Airbus A380s.
- 59 Boeing 777s.
- 42 Boeing 787s.
- 20 Embraer E190s.
In total, British Airways has 297 aircraft in their fleet, of which 285 are in active service, and 12 are parked, with an average fleet age of 14.5 years.
British Airways flight BA1458, which declared the emergency, departed from London Heathrow at 1732 local time and headed up to Edinburgh.
Everything was normal in the flight until the descent phase into the Scottish airport.
During the descent, the crew onboard declared a general emergency via the 7700 squawk code.
From there, the aircraft was given a priority landing into the Scottish airport, where it did so at 1835 local time without further incident.
What Was The Reason for the Emergency?
As per @FlightEmergency on X, the reason for the emergency onboard British Airways flight BA1458 London-Edinburgh was due to the first officer having a medical problem.
At this stage, it is unclear what the nature of the medical problem was involving the first officer.
As soon as we have more information pertinent to the incident, then we will update you accordingly.
For now, this remains a developing story pending additional updates that may come through.
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