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Updated 8.32pm
A UNITED AIRLINES flight has been forced to make an emergency landing at Dublin Airport after experiencing technical difficulties while in the air.
Flight UAL101 departed from Manchester and was en route to Washington when it had to be diverted to Dublin. It is understood the technical difficulties on board related to generators.
The Dublin Airport Fire Service and Dublin Fire Brigade were waiting on the runway for the aircraft, as is normal procedure in the event of an emergency landing.
A Dublin Airport Authority spokesperson said the flight landed safely with 155 passengers and nine crew on board.
A spokesperson for the airline said the flight was subsequently cancelled. “Our customer service team at Dublin is providing our customers with meals and overnight hotel accommodation,” they added.
A replacement flight is planned to leave Dublin tomorrow morning.
The airline apologised for any inconvenience caused.
First published 1.38pm
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Looks like I picked the wrong day to quit amphetamines.
Surely you can’t be serious.
It’s a different type of flying all together. Don’t call me Shirley.
I speak jive.
Ever seen a grown man naked in the shower?
Ever spent a night in a Turkish prison.
Ever dipped your Mr Freeze in a jar of Bovril….
whats your vector victor !
“Negative ghost rider , that pattern is full”
Your gonna need a bigger boat.
There’s just no stopping in the white zone.
Oh really, Vernon? Why pretend? We both know perfectly well what this is about. You want me to have an abortion.
I’ll give him another 10 minutes and then that’s it!
9 crew on United’s 757. Only 6 on Aer Lingus’. Interesting.
Are tourism figures up because of all the diverted flights there and Shannon. More the merrier.
You must actually leave the airport count. Those in transit are not included.
Time for Inda to introduce an emergency landing tax to get us out of this financial mess!!!
They already pay a fee to the airport which is heavily taxed.
Think the problem is with united airlines fleet of planes their ageing and on their last legs every week theirs a problem with them
Really? Every week? Please do tell….
Aoife do a Google News search for United Airlines emergency landings and you’ll become enlightened.
Getting a bit weird all these flights diverting to Ireland and making emergency landings here. Who is getting off the planes?
Is that four in so many months?
Cunning ploy by Failte Ireland
The passengers will be the prime guests on the Late Late this week.
Cant wait to see Tubridy handing them sliotars and GAA jerseys and boring them all by talking about stuff they dont care about…
It’s just being reported more than before.
Planes have been diverting into Irish airports for as long as planes have been crossing the Atlantic, I’d take a guess and say there’s nearly one every week or two diverting into either Dublin or Shannon and there has been for years. It’s nothing new.
They divert to Dublin because once you are over the North Atlantic we are the closest airport that can cater for such emergencies. There is no conspiracy here.
Apart from Shannon.
Shannon can’t deal with certain emergencies that Dublin can and likewise for Shannon that Dublin can’t take.
Yes Dublin is the 1st choice for medical emergencies but Shannon is the only Irish airport that can handle the A380 safely.
Very good point Garry!
Dublin can handle an A380 perfectly fine
@Aaron, i know the runway is long enough but it is not long enough in an emergency say brake failure or reversers failure. And when i said Dublin cant handle a A380 i meant the taxiways aren’t strong enough to hold it, when the first 777 came to Dublin that cracked the stand so an a380 would do a huge amount of damage. And if there was an emergency pilots on the a380 would definitely prefer Shannon’s 3km long runway over Dublin’s runway.
Shannon was an alternate landing site for the space shuttles should it have been required in an emergency.
Loop. I think you have seen the specsavers ad too much. Is that true?
Shay,
It is very true. Google it ! Shannon has a long runway and NASA had a few alternate landing sites around they world in case the re-entry of the shuttle went wrong and they couldn’t make Florida. Obviously Shannon was never used and I don’t think any of the others were either.
The space shuttles were significantly smaller than many of these commercial airliners.
True Neal , but they landed at almost twice the speed of a commercial jet. They weren’t actually that small either, being around the size of a 737.
Thanks loop, I googled it this morning. Never knew that. Makes sense though it being such a long runway.
Yeah, they tried to cover every angle, unfortunately it didn’t work out too well for 14 of their astronauts.
It was a Boeing 757-200 and it had its gear down for a while before landing to burn off fuel as the 757 cannot dump fuel, so it wouldn’t be an overweight landing.
Not a 747 as pictured.
It was us. We are looking for John McClane, he has our detonators. If you see him tell him I am looking for him. Hans apologizes for the airport traffic.
United airlines again ?
And you’d say the same about Ryanair!
I think you are referring to the US Airways aircraft that diverted to Dublin due to sick crew. It is a different airline.
2 United Airlines diversions due to sick crew.
They were both us airways flights not united.
Well all those old American Airlines are gradually merging with each other so they should at least sort out their problems first before they all infect each other.
Quick. Stamp a shamrock on Enda. And sell them him. Because he sure does represent alcoholism in my life. Driven to drink by the tw4t.
They should have sent Donald Trump’s welcoming party to greet them.
Sell them some tat that celebrates alcoholism and has shamrocks printed on it quickly!
Michelle, I bet that you would have had more scares on one of those flights than you got hoiked up on that crane the other day :-)
That’s a different kind of scare, Hallie. I think I’ll stick with the frights that come with sandwiches and sparkling wine ;)
Was in Dublin airport in December and a 747 landed, surrounded by , police / Garda / ambulances / fire brigade…. And stood there for ages not dicking and letting people of, I had to get on my plane, so don’t know what the story was, and never heard anything on the news..
I was at that. It was a Lufthansa flight. There was a very sick gentleman on board who we removed and took to hospital. All the fire engines was because it landed heavy (full of fuel). We were delayed boarding because the airport fire service were worried the undercarriage had overheated on landing.
a non-news story
One man’s non-news is another man’s news.
I really like custard creams
Have to be honest I hate flying on United planes. Cramped and rickety. Flying to Ireland out of Newark though they used to be the only show in town, I think American Airlines leave from there too but after last May when I took the train from NJ to JFK and made it in a little over an hour it’s Aer Lingus for me from now on.
United are the only airline that fly to Dublin from Newark, and they use the same aircrafts that Aer Lingus and AA use. Funny that
Flew united to Newark a few weeks ago…had no problems with them and would fly again
No they don’t. The Aer Lingus planes are bigger. Two seats on the window sides and a row of three in the aisles as opposed to two either side on United.
First two answers well deserved green thumbs. Last three nods head in disbelief.
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