EasyJet flight from Tenerife to UK forced to make emergency landing after passenger, 67, falls unconscious on board
AN EASYJET plane from Tenerife to Liverpool was forced to make an emergency landing after an elderly passenger fell unconscious on board.
The pilot put out an urgent request for any doctors or nurses to come forward on the flight before it made its unscheduled landing at Santiago-Rosalia de Castro Airport in Galicia, Spain.
Air traffic controllers revealed the plane had to be diverted for emergency medical reasons as efforts to “revive a 67-year-old passenger who was unconscious” took place.
It was not immediately clear if the woman who fell ill was British with her current condition still unknown.
Passengers on board were put up in local hotels for the night before continuing their journeys home the following day.
An easyJet spokesman said: “Flight EZY3366 from Tenerife to Liverpool on Tuesday evening was required to divert to Santiago–Rosalia de Castro where it was met by paramedics due to a customer onboard requiring urgent medical attention.”
Air traffic controllers later confirmed in a message on X: “The crew of the flight from Tenerife South to Liverpool informed us that they needed to urgently divert to the airport at Santiago because they were trying to revive a 67-year-old female passenger who was unconscious.
“We facilitated a continuous descent and approach to runway 35 while medical care on the ground was coordinated with the airport.
“We wish the passenger a speedy recovery.”
Confirmation of the travel scare comes after a British woman was evacuated by helicopter from a cruise ship after suffering a heart emergency.
The passenger was rushed by air ambulance to the Álvaro Cunqueiro Hospital in Vigo near Galicia’s southern border with Portugal needing urgent attention.
The holidaymaker had been enjoying a trip on the Sky Princess boat when she fell ill five miles off Cape Silleiro, north-east Spain.
The huge leisure ship, with a 3,660 capacity, had recently left Vigo and was bound for Funchal, on the island of Madeira.
A Pesca 1 helicopter from Spain‘s coastguard fleet was scrambled to rescue the gravely ill Brit.
The passenger who fell ill on board the easyJet plane is understood to have been travelling with her husband and a friend.
Another incident on board an easyJet plane saw a pilot suspended after his packed holiday jet flew too close to a mountain.
The aircraft was just seconds away from disaster as the plane descended towards the Red Sea resort of Hurghada in Egypt.