{"id":3000,"date":"2026-01-27T12:50:49","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T12:50:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/?p=3000"},"modified":"2026-01-27T12:50:49","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T12:50:49","slug":"newcastle-bound-emirates-flight-declares-mid-air-emergency-over-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/?p=3000","title":{"rendered":"Newcastle-bound Emirates flight declares mid-air emergency over UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-the-plane-failed-two-landing-attempts\">The plane failed two landing attempts<\/h2>\n<p>A Newcastle-bound Emirates flight has had to declare a mid-air emergency, being forced to divert away from the airport.<\/p>\n<p>The Boeing 777-300 was flying from Dubai to Newcastle and was at the time the most tracked flight in the world on Flightradar24 with over 20,000 people watching it.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>The aircraft squawked 7700, meaning to declare a mid-air emergency, following two failed landing attempts at Newcastle Airport.<\/p>\n<p>The plane diverted north of the airport and has just landed at Edinburgh Airport.<\/p>\n<p>It comes as Storm Chandra hits the UK bringing intense wind and rain, although Newcastle was not an area under warning by the Met Office.<\/p>\n<p>Flightradar24 initially brought attention to the flight on their X account.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"\/>\n<p>They wrote: \u201cEmirates #EK35, flying from Dubai to Newcastle, has squawked 7700 and appears to be diverting. This after two landing attempts in Newcastle.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>You can watch the plane attempt to land at Newcastle below at the 03:12:00 mark: <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\ud83d\udd34LIVE STORM Chandra at Newcastle International Airport 27th of January 2026\" width=\"696\" height=\"522\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GsoHCfatRQ8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The plane has since landed safely in Edinburgh, although the cause for the mid-air emergency is currently not known.<\/p>\n<p>    <!-- Bottom ad unit --><\/p>\n<p>    <!-- Custom pseudo content\/category -->\n            <\/div>\n<p>#Newcastlebound #Emirates #flight #declares #midair #emergency<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The plane failed two landing attempts A Newcastle-bound Emirates flight has had to declare a mid-air emergency, being forced to divert away from the airport. The Boeing 777-300 was flying from Dubai to Newcastle and was at the time the most tracked flight in the world on Flightradar24 with over 20,000 people watching it. &#13; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3001,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1766,2501,1961,1856,1857,2502,2500,923,1767],"class_list":{"0":"post-3000","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-featured","8":"tag-aviation","9":"tag-declares","10":"tag-emergency","11":"tag-emirates","12":"tag-flight","13":"tag-midair","14":"tag-newcastlebound","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-planejoe"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3000\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}