EasyJet flight diverted to Gatwick after emergency declared on board

An Airbus A319-111 from easyJet takes off from Barcelona airport in Barcelona, Spain, on March 18, 2025. (Photo by Joan Valls/Urbanandsport/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
An emergency forced the plane to change course (Picture: Joan Valls/Urbanandsport/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

An easyJet flight from Alicante to Manchester was forced to divert to Gatiwck after a mid-air emergency.

Flight U25521 declared an emergency on board while flying over the south British coast this morning.

The plane then changed flight plan and landed at Gatwick airport at around 8.30am on Sunday.

It is not known what the emergency was or whether the plane was met by emergency services after touch down.

This diversion comes weeks after another easyJet flight from Tenerife to Liverpool landed early at a northern Spanish airport due to a medical emergency on March 25.

An easyJet flight from Alicante to Manchester has diverted to Gatwick Airport after declaring an emergency on board. Flight U25521 reportedly declared an emergency when flying over the southern British coast this morning. The plane, bound for Manchester, landed on runway 26L at Gatwick Airport around 8.30am on Sunday. It is not clear exactly what the medical emergency was and if the plane was met by emergency services when it landed at the major London airport.
Flight U25521 altered course after being forced to land at Gatwick (Picture: FlightRadar)

There attempts were made to ‘revive a 67-year-old passenger who was unconscious’.

Passengers then stayed at the Santiago-Rosalia de Castro Airport, in Galicia, over night before heading home the next day.

A couple weeks earlier an easyJet pilot made an emergency diversion after families came to blows 30,000ft in the air over a boy watching The Karate Kid too loudly.

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