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FIVE PEOPLE HAVE been taken to hospital after a holiday jet made an emergency landing at Shannon Airport this evening following reports from the crew of smoke in the cockpit.
Condor flight DE-2116 was travelling from Frankfurt, Germany to Cancun in Mexico with 337 passengers and crew on board.
The flight was about two hours west of Ireland when the crew issued a May-Day radio distress call and made a U-turn. It’s understood the crew reported they had detected smoke in the cockpit and requested clearance to turn around and divert to Shannon.
On the ground, airport authorities implemented Shannon Airport’s emergency plan which also involved alerting the National Ambulance Service, local authority fire service and An Garda Síochána.
Three units of Clare County Fire and Rescue Service were dispatched to the airport from Shannon Town. Additional units from Ennis were also mobilised to the airport. The National Ambulance Service sent a number of resources including ambulances and advanced paramedic response vehicles.
The flight landed safely at 7.13pm and was pursued along the runway by crash crews.
The aircraft taxied to the apron close to the terminal building where fire crews used thermal imaging cameras to search for hotspots in the fuselage. A further inspection was carried out internally however it’s understood that no evidence of fire was found.
Five people have been taken to University Hospital Limerick for treatment. It’s understood they include four cabin crew members and a passenger who were reported to be suffering from smoke inhalation.
The other passengers are expected to be taken to local hotels overnight while the aircraft will remain grounded while engineers work to establish the origin of the smoke.
The flight is expected to resume tomorrow.
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Tommorow takes off again ? They will still be on a trolley at limerick hospital
Two hours back the ways over the Atlantic. The pants would be shat off me.
Hope everyone will be ok.
@Gerard hayes: They are.
Can you imagine with a doctors strike ,paramedics strike ,nurses strike ,….337 casualties for the overcrowded university hospital limerick !
Thank god only 5 taken to hospital !!!
@Michael Holland: Do you seriously think that the Nurses and Doctors would disrupt emergency services during a crises …
Really !!!
@Michael Holland: get a grip!
Credit to the pilots!
All passengers get to fly back in a military plane courtesy of the USofA…that has just been hanging around Shannon for reason’s unknown.
Would’ve thought they would issue pan, pan and not mayday.
@Paraic: no 2hours out it is mayday. Also pan calls only if they can see or find the fault. Pan call are of urgence. Mayday is emergency.
C
@Brendan Redmond: U
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