Plane forced to make emergency landing at Dublin Airport

There has been some bank holiday disruption at Dublin Airport this evening, after a plane was forced to make an emergency landing tonight.

Sat, 04 Aug, 2012 - 00:02

There has been some bank holiday disruption at Dublin Airport this evening, after a plane was forced to make an emergency landing tonight.

American Airlines flight 155 was en route from London Healthrow to Boston in the US when a technical problem was discovered.

It was forced to turn back and landed safely in Dublin at about 10.15pm.

All of the passengers are safe but as a result of the incident, several flights have been diverted - to Belfast, Shannon and Manchester airports.

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