Virgin Atlantic flight chaos as firefighters swarm plane after landing
The flight, travelling from Orlando, was forced to make the emergency landing at Edinburgh Airport.
A Virgin Atlantic flight has been forced to make an emergency landing after chaos unfolded earlier this morning.
The flight, travelling from Orlando in Florida to Edinburgh Airport, was due to land in the Scottish capital at 11am.
But the pilots reported low pressure on its front nose gear tyre on departure from the Florida city.
As the flight approached Edinburgh, 3,000 from across the world watched on FlightRader24.
The flight has now landed on the runway, sparking a major emergency response in Edinburgh.
When it landed, several ambulances and fire engines were seen waiting on the tarmac.
The plane was surrounded by emergency vehicles, including firefighters, as a precaution.
It touched down on the tarmac at 11.20am, some 20 minutes after it was scheduled to land.
According to Virgin Atlantic, the passengers and crew disembarked "as normal".
A number of other flights have been left delayed as a result, while others have been forced into a holding pattern, circling near the airport until the runway is cleared.
The runway is now fully reopened after the flight left the runway shortly before 12pm.
A Virgin Atlantic spokesperson said; "As a precautionary measure we have requested engineers meet our flight the VS226 travelling from Orlando to Edinburgh upon landing due to low nose gear tyre pressure. The safety of our customers and crew is always our top priority and the aircraft had landed as normal"
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The spokesperson specified that the landing was not an "emergency".
This comes amid a spate of concerning news headlines around flight safety.
Last week, a Singapore Airlines flight hit by severe turbulence left a 73-year-old British man dead from a suspected heart attack. The airliner experienced "a rapid change in gravitational force" and a 54m (178ft) altitude drop in four seconds, an investigation has found. There are 28 people still in Thai hospitals after making an emergency landing.
Meanwhile, eight people have been taken to hospital after a flight from Doha to Dublin similarly experienced severe turbulence.
A third turbulence-related incident in the past two weeks saw a Turkish Airlines flight attendant break her back on a short domestic flight in Turkey. The woman, who had been on the job for only two months, was thrown up toward the ceiling and then fell down to the floor of the plane.
