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Glasgow Live
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Craig Williams

'Terrifying' moment Glasgow flight descends 20,000 feet in minutes as passenger takes ill

Pilots had to request a priority landing at Glasgow Airport as a precaution due to a passenger medical issue on board a flight.

The incident involved a British Airways flight travelling from London Heathrow, which departed the capital at 7:30am this morning.

Flight tracking site Flightradar24 shows the plane descended rapidly from 31,000 ft to 11,000 ft in a matter of minutes on approach to Glasgow as it flew above Cumbria and Dumfries and Galloway.

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