Glasgow flight descends 20,000 feet in minutes as passenger takes ill.
Pilots had to request a priority landing at Glasgow Airport as a precaution due to a passenger medical issue on board a flight.
The incident involved a British Airways flight travelling from London Heathrow, which departed the capital at 7:30am this morning. Flight tracking site Flightradar24 shows the plane descended rapidly from 31,000 ft to 11,000 ft in a matter of minutes on approach to Glasgow as it flew above Cumbria and Dumfries and Galloway.This came after the plane issued a Squawk 7700 emergency code - which is reserved for emergency situations and immediately alerts Air Traffic Control and other units that the that the aircraft is in distress.They tweeted: "British Airways inflight emergency.
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A British Airways spokeswoman confirmed to Glasgow Live that the pilots requested a priority landing as a precaution due to a customer requiring medical assistance.
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