A PACKED plane of British travellers was met by emergency services on the tarmac following a passenger suffering a medical emergency mid-flight.
The alarm was raised on the Jet2 aircraft, when the traveller began suffering “serious medical issues”.
The plane, travelling from London Stansted to Tenerife South, was prioritised on the Spanish runway, landing on the opposite side of the island following the emergency.
Flight staff contacted air traffic controllers on Friday, saying: “They [required] priority due to a passenger with serious medical issues on board”.
“We are shortening their arrival route, from the east of the island instead of the west, diverting traffic,” they said.
The flight landed just before 2.30pm.
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Medical assistance met the crew and unwell passenger when the plane landed.
The air traffic controllers wished “the passenger a speedy recovery”.
No further details about the passenger or their condition have been released.
The emergency comes after another mid-air incident earlier in the week, where holidaymakers claimed an already deceased elderly British woman was wheeled onto an easyJet flight.
The plane, travelling from Malaga to Gatwick, was turned around before even leaving the runway, and the flight was delayed 12 hours.
Tracy-Ann Kitching, a fellow Brit passenger, raged on social media, saying: “I saw her wheeled onto the plane, someone was holding her head when they went past me.”
“An actual doctor confirmed she was already dead when they put her in her seat,” she wrote.
EasyJet has insisted passengers were incorrect, due to the unwell passenger having a fit-to-fly certificate when she boarded the flight.
The airline said she had been alive at that time.
A spokesperson for the Civil Guard in Malaga said the woman was pronounced dead after she had boarded the flight.
“Officers were asked to go to the plane along with other emergency responders after an elderly British woman went into cardiac arrest on an aircraft at Malaga Airport,” the spokesperson said.
“She was pronounced dead on the plane… just after 11am on December 18.”
