An EasyJet aircraft from Tenerife to Liverpool had to be diverted on board to a North Spanish Airport after a medical emergency.
The pilot has submitted an urgent request for doctors or nurses on board to come forward before it made its unplanned landing on Santiago-Rosalia the Castro Airport in Galicia.
Air traffic controllers revealed that the plane was diverted when attempts were made to “breathe new life into a 67-year-old passenger that was unconscious.”
It was not immediately clear today whether the woman who became sick was British and her current condition is not known.
Passengers on board were set up in local hotels for the night before they continue their outdated trips home.
Confirmation of the travel shock comes after a British woman was evacuated from a cruise ship after an emergency.
The passenger was brought with air ambulance to the Álvaro Cunqueiro Hospital in Vigo near the southern border of Galicia, where Portugal needed urgent attention.
The holiday maker had enjoyed a trip on the Sky Princess Boat when she fell ill from five miles from Cape Silleiro, Northeast Spain.
The passenger who fell ill on board the EasyJet plane is supposed to have traveled with her husband and a friend
The enormous leisure ship, with a capacity of 3,660, recently left Vigo and was on the way to Funchal, on the island of Madeira.
A Pesca 1 -helicopter from the Coastguard fleet of Spain was refurbished to save the serious sick Brit.
The passenger who fell ill on board the EasyJet plane is supposed to have traveled with her husband and a friend.
A spokesperson for EasyJet said: “Flee Ezy3366 from Tenerife to Liverpool on Tuesday evening was required to distract to Santiago -Rosalia De Castro where paramedics met it because of a customer on board who required urgent medical attention.”
Air traffic controllers said in a message on X: 'The crew of the flight from Tenerife South to Liverpool told us that they urgently had to distract to the airport in Santiago because they tried to breathe new life into a 67-year-old female passenger that was unconscious.
'We have facilitated a continuous descent and approach to runway 35, while medical care on the ground was coordinated with the airport.
“We wish the passenger a quick recovery.”
