Flight AC937 left Edinburgh shortly before 10am – around 40 minutes later than planned – before declaring an emergency over the Atlantic due to a cracked windscreen
An Air Canada flight departing from Edinburgh has turned around after declaring an emergency over the Atlantic Ocean due to a cracked windscreen.
Flight AC937 left the Scottish capital just before 10am – roughly 40 minutes behind its original schedule.
The Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner was set to touch down at Montreal-Trudeau Airport at 2.50pm UK time but approximately an hour into the journey, activated the general emergency 7700 squawk protocol and turned back towards Scotland.
Information from flight tracking application FlightRadar24 revealed the aircraft travelling eastbound over the Atlantic Ocean several hundred miles from the Western Isles coastline at that moment.
It returned over the Hebrides towards the central belt, making its way back to Edinburgh Airport.
A photograph shared on social media revealed the fracture on the left window of the pilots’ cockpit.
It remains unclear how long any maintenance work on the aircraft will require before it can potentially return to service, reports the Daily Record.
Emergency response squawking 7700 indicates a general emergency has been declared. It can encompass various situations including technical or medical emergencies.
The protocol enables air traffic controllers and ground teams to address the emergency in the most efficient way possible.
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