A Delta Air Lines scheduled flight from Edinburgh to Atlanta, GA has declared an emergency and is presently on diversion to Reykjavik.
Delta Air Lines flight DL35, a Boeing 777-300ER on a longhaul transatlantic flight from Edinburgh (EDI) to Atlanta (ATL) declared a general emergency enroute as it passed to the west of Ireland.
Delta Air Lines DL35 Edinburgh – Atlanta
The flight is currently making good a diversion to Reykjavik, Iceland (KEF).
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Flight DL35, operated by a Boeing 767-300ER registered N184DN, is a 30-year old airframe belonging to Delta Air Lines. The flight declared a general emergency from the cruise; having established on track for Atlanta at Flight Level FL340 (34,000 feet) before squawking 7700.
Diversion to Reykjavik (KEF)
Having passed to the west of Ireland, the flight then initiated a diversion north of track to Reykjavik (KEF), and is currently on descent, passing through 12,000 feet.
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The nature of the general emergency is not known at this time. It does appear as though the flight was delayed on departure from the Scottish airport of Edinburgh; showing a scheduled time of departure of 12:15 local. The flight shows an actual departure of 14:05 BST.
It is uncertain whether the delayed departure had any bearing on the nature of the emergency experienced by the flight today.
The transatlantic longhaul flight from Scotland is typically a flight of approximately 16 hours duration. Estimated flight time for today’s flight, according to RadarBox data was to be 15 hours 50 minutes.
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Arriving from the south, the Delta flight has set up for a straight-in approach to Reykjavik’s Keflavik Airport (KEF) RWY02. Weather for the flights arrival is visual (VFR) conditions.
This is a developing story. Please check back for updates.