Emergency services at Dublin Airport were put on alert yesterday as an aircraft with 176 passengers on board was forced to land. Five fire tenders stood by as the Boeing 757, experiencing problems with wing flaps, landed at 9.45 a.m. The aircraft had just taken off for Malaga.
Technical problems forced the aircraft to return earlier in the morning, 20 minutes after take-off, because of a flashing warning light in the cockpit. Charter firm Air 2000 replaced the aircraft with an A320 airbus and the flight eventually left Dublin at 3.46 p.m.