Friday, August 04, 2006
Plane Makes Emergency Landing in Tenerife
A plane from British company, Excel Airways, with 188 passengers and five crew on board, had to make an emergency landing today at the Reina Sofia airport in South Tenerife, due to a fire alarm. There were no injuries.
Sources at Spanish airports authority, AENA, informed Spanish press agency, EFE, that the plane had departed from the Tenerife airport at 11.04 this morning en route to Cardiff, south Wales and 45 minutes later the pilot requested permission to land again at Tenerife, because of the alarm.
Tenerife airport's emergency services went onto yellow alert and after the plane landed, with no difficulties whatsoever, AENA fire services checked the fuselage of the plane, but did not find any anomaly.
Sources say that the plane has remained at the south Tenerife airport, where it is being checked by technicians to determine the cause of the alarm. Passengers and crew have been taken to transit areas and will be put up in hotels in the area, until the plane has been checked.
Un avión realiza un aterrizaje de emergencia en Tenerife Sur
