Aircraft emergency: Light aircraft sends urgent code 7700 Squawk at 1500 feet | United Kingdom | New
The Tutor G-BYVH aircraft transmitted the signal near Stamford to Peterborough shortly after 1.30pm this afternoon. The 7700 squawk code is designed to immediately alert air traffic control of an aircraft in distress.
It can often be used to indicate a technical or engineering problem with the aircraft.
Just yesterday a flight from Turin to London had to issue a ‘7700’ alert before landing.
The easyJet flight, number EZY73WP 9H-SLH, transmitted a code 7700, indicating a general emergency at Gatwick airport.
However, it was reported that the plane landed safely at Gatwick.
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On Thursday June 9, a TUI Airways flight BY245 transmitted emergency code 7700 while flying northwest of Gloucester.
The flight took off from Sal International Airport, Cape Verde’s main international airport, at 23:19 (UTC) after being delayed from its original departure time of 19:55 (UTC).
The Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner was en route to Bristol Airport and was due to land at 6:36 a.m.
According to Flightradar24, the flight was diverted to Birmingham Airport (BHX).
It follows weeks of chaos for travelers at UK airports, with German travel giant TUI seeing hundreds of flights affected.
The tour operator previously apologized for the delays and cancellations, adding that it was doing “everything we can to limit flight delays”.
They also advised travelers against arriving at departure airports too early, as this could worsen wait times.
Thousands of passengers faced further disruption on Wednesday morning after low-cost airline EasyJet cut at least 35 flights on Tuesday.
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