A plane travelling to Edinburgh turned back to France after declaring a mid-air emergency.
The ASL Arilines France aircraft, travelling on the Charles De Gaulle to Edinburgh route, declared an emergency just after 3pm on Monday after flying across the English Channel.
The aircraft in question is a Boeing 747-4YO with callsign FPO23F.
It was originally thought to be a passenger flight, however it has since been confirmed that it was a cargo plane, with two crew members on board.
A spokesman confirmed to The Herald that the squawk message was made at the request of Air Traffic Control after the crew experienced an issue with the cargo door.
They said: "Although it may have been an indication issue only, in the interests of safety they decided to return to Paris-CDG. This airport was closer than Edinburgh at the time and is also the aircraft’s maintenance base. The crew did not declare an emergency and the nature of the issue did not require them to land at a nearer airport.
"With safety in mind the crew did seek to return to CDG at a lower altitude and this request was granted by ATC who, as stated above, asked for the squawk."
Why are you making commenting on The Herald only available to subscribers?
It should have been a safe space for informed debate, somewhere for readers to discuss issues around the biggest stories of the day, but all too often the below the line comments on most websites have become bogged down by off-topic discussions and abuse.
heraldscotland.com is tackling this problem by allowing only subscribers to comment.
We are doing this to improve the experience for our loyal readers and we believe it will reduce the ability of trolls and troublemakers, who occasionally find their way onto our site, to abuse our journalists and readers. We also hope it will help the comments section fulfil its promise as a part of Scotland's conversation with itself.
We are lucky at The Herald. We are read by an informed, educated readership who can add their knowledge and insights to our stories.
That is invaluable.
We are making the subscriber-only change to support our valued readers, who tell us they don't want the site cluttered up with irrelevant comments, untruths and abuse.
In the past, the journalist’s job was to collect and distribute information to the audience. Technology means that readers can shape a discussion. We look forward to hearing from you on heraldscotland.com
Comments & Moderation
Readers’ comments: You are personally liable for the content of any comments you upload to this website, so please act responsibly. We do not pre-moderate or monitor readers’ comments appearing on our websites, but we do post-moderate in response to complaints we receive or otherwise when a potential problem comes to our attention. You can make a complaint by using the ‘report this post’ link . We may then apply our discretion under the user terms to amend or delete comments.
Post moderation is undertaken full-time 9am-6pm on weekdays, and on a part-time basis outwith those hours.
Read the rules hereLast Updated:
Report this comment Cancel