airBaltic Plane Makes Emergency Landing at Brussels Airport Over Technical Problems
A plane of Latvian carrier airBaltic made an emergency landing at Brussels Airport on Wednesday evening because of technical problems. Nobody was hurt, and the nature and cause of the problems are still unknown.
A plane operated by the Latvian airline airBaltic made an emergency landing at Brussels Airport in Belgium on Wednesday evening because of technical problems. An airport spokesperson confirmed the incident to the Belgian news agency Belga. Nobody was injured.
Flight route
The aircraft had departed from Berlin, the capital of Germany. Its destination was Brussels Airport, located in Zaventem. The emergency landing took place at that same airport.
How the incident unfolded
The airport received the first report of the incident shortly before 10 p.m. The airport spokesperson said the emergency landing went without complications. No one was harmed.
What is still unknown
It is not yet clear what kind of technical problems the aircraft experienced or what caused them. The source also does not say how many people were on board, which flight it was, or how passengers' journeys will continue after the landing.
An emergency landing means an aircraft comes down sooner or differently than planned, usually for safety reasons. In this case the plane reached the very airport it was heading to, and the landing ended without injuries.
