A woman has been rushed to hospital after the flight on which she was travelling diverted to Shannon Airport this afternoon.
KLM Royal Dutch Airlines flight 243 was travelling from Amsterdam in The Netherlands to the Dutch island of Saint Maarten in the Southern Caribbean at the time. There were 272 passengers and crew on board the Airbus A330 jet.
The flight had already transited Irish airspace was about 450 kilometres west of Shannon Airport when the crew declared a medical emergency shortly after 1pm.
