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Plane descends 20,000 ft in minutes in ‘terrifying’ landing at Glasgow Airport

The aircraft crew then issued a Squawk 7700 alert after a passenger took ill which told air traffic control that they needed to land immediately

Newsroom July 20 11:00

A PLANE was forced to do a ‘terrifying’ landing in Glasgow Airport after descending 20,000 feet in a few minutes.

The British Airways flight BA1472 left London Heathrow at 7.30am on Monday morning.

The aircraft crew then issued a Squawk 7700 alert after a passenger took ill which told air traffic control that they needed to land immediately.

The plane subsequently descended from 31,000 ft to 11,000 ft in a matter of minutes.

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A Twitter user who shared the graph from FlightRadar24 commented on the rapid descent.

They wrote: “That has to be terrifying for the passengers.”

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