Fire and ambulance services called to Hawarden airport after aircraft declares emergency

Emergency services have been called to Hawarden airport after an aircraft declared an emergency prior to landing.

UPDATE: An Eastern Airways spokesperson has said:

“The captain operating this morning’s EZE1762 charter flight from Bristol to Chester was met by the airport fire service on arrival into Hawarden following reports of an unusual odour in the cockpit.

“The aircraft landed safely at 9.35am.

“As a precautionary measure, the 8 passengers and three crew on board the Jetstream 41 evacuated the aircraft, once the aircraft had stopped and the engines had been shut down.

“The safety of our passengers and crew is our number one priority and will not be compromised.”

Original information below…

Wrexham.com readers will have seen us tweet an alert from our sky tracker software situated in Wrexham that pinged that an aircraft had declared a 7700 squawk, with the flightpath over the Wrexham area before circling back to land.

British Aerospace Jetstream turboprop declared emergency north of Wrexham – now low over Chester probably going into Hawarden pic.twitter.com/TvfGSzhEgl

— Wrexham.com (@wrexham) October 16, 2017

The Eastern Airways Jetstream plane was on a scheduled flight between Bristol, Filton and Hawarden, it is used by Airbus to transfer employees between their two UK sites.

The plane landed was scheduled to land at 9.36am, it is believed it may have suffered an engine problem but that is unconfirmed, we are told fire engines surrounded the plane once it had landed.

“Now landed and stopped just off mid runway as I drove past. Emergency vehicles in attendance.” said @jonokimber on Twitter to @Wrexham.

A Wales Ambulance Spokesperson has said:

“We were called at shortly before 9.40am this morning to Hawarden Airport in Flintshire.

Two crews in emergency ambulances and a paramedic in a rapid response vehicle are currently at the scene.”

Two patients were checked over at the scene, but did not require hospital treatment.

Looks like Beluga is currently holding near Llandrindod Wells due to the emergency at Hawarden Airport. https://t.co/eM7S9T8wba pic.twitter.com/b3PCueEiZC

— Deeside.com (@DeesideDotCom) October 16, 2017

Top picture Lynne Jones via Deeside.com