Lanzarote flight forced to return to Shannon due to medical emergency

By
Kathy Masterson
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A RYANAIR flight bound for Lanzarote in the Canary Islands was forced to return to Shannon Airport following a medical emergency this morning.

Ryanair flight FR-1344 had departed from Shannon at 8.20am. However just 25 minutes later, when the flight was about 250 kilometres south of Cork, the flight crew contacted air traffic controllers to inform them they had a medical emergency on board.

At the airport, authorities mounted response procedures for a medical emergency and alerted the National Ambulance Service.

The flight landed safely at 9.46am and the ill passenger, understood to be an elderly woman, was taken by ambulance to University Hospital Limerick.

The flight resumed its journey to Lanzarote shortly before 11.00am.

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