Wizz Air Flight From Turin to London Luton Declares Emergency

Within the last 30 minutes, a Wizz Air flight from Turin to London Luton has declared an emergency.

Information is limited surrounding the incident at hand, but below is what we know on this so far.

Wizz Air Flight W95378 – Turin to London Luton…

Wizz Air flight W95378, which declared the emergency, is a routine scheduled flight between Turin and London Luton.

Furthermore, the aircraft involved in the incident was G-WUNE.

As per data from Planespotters.net, G-WUNE is a 2.5 year old Airbus A321neo that was delivered to the carrier’s UK subsidiary back in March 2024.

Of the A321neo variant, Wizz Air UK has 19 of them in their fleet, of which all are in active service, with an average fleet age of 3.6 years.

Wizz Air flight W95378, which declared the emergency, departed Turin at 1819 local time this evening and tracked towards London Luton.

It is key to note this flight was around an hour and 40 minutes late departing from the Italian airport.

Everything else seemed normal in the flight until the aircraft started performing holds over Heathrow Airport.

After that, the crew declared an emergency via the 7700 squawk code and proceeded to start descending and tracking East.

The aircraft will be diverting to London Gatwick as a result of this emergency and is still in the air at the time of publication.

Second Emergency: Fuel-Related?

As this article was being produced, another emergency involving a Wizz Air flight bound for London Luton also occurred.

W92601 from Prague was also due to head to it’s destination but has also opted for Stansted Airport.

Flightradar24 reports London Luton Airport to be the #2 most disrupted airport currently.

This is due to Thunderstorms over the vicinity of the airfield making it unsafe to land.

It would also explain the low fuel emergencies due to potential delays in getting into Luton initially.

Overall, it is unclear whether anymore aircraft will declare a low fuel emergency due to this adverse weather.

As soon as we have more information, we will update you accordingly.

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