Smoke alert triggers mid-air emergency on Aberdeen flight

A flight heading to Aberdeen airport has been forced to turn back after an on-board smoke alert sparked a mid-air emergency.

The Eastern Airways flight T3722 from Norwich was due to land at Aberdeen International Airport at 8.05am this morning.

But a smoke alert on board forced the flight to turn back.

A Norwich International Airport spokeswoman said: “The flight returned to Norwich due to a technical fault.

“Everyone is all off and safe and hopefully it will be able to be repaired. If not, passengers will be put on a later flight.

“Smoke was smelt on board but we don’t know where it was coming from.

“They are looking into it but it was better to take the plane back rather than carry on with the journey.”

Eastern Airways #T3722 from Norwich (NWI) to Aberdeen (ABZ) is returning to Norwich due to emergency on board pic.twitter.com/kiGDXMwo8C

— Flight Information (@FlightInfo_) July 8, 2016