Originally Posted by
Plane mad 134
G-SMLA just made an emergency landing at Stansted, all flights holding or stopped on the ground, hope everyone is ok as it went off radar just before landing and on squawk 7700. Edit: flights resumed at 07:50 about 5 minutes later.
G-SMLA had just departed SEN on a positioning flight to Rome and reportedly had a flap problem. Presumably the longer runway at STN was considered preferable from a safety point of view.