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Dreamliner in emergency landing at Dublin Airport

US-bound Ethiopian Boeing 787 Dreamliner took off from Dublin at 6.10am en route to Washington. info below

Emergency landing at Dublin Airport | BreakingNews.ie

Some more info from RTE

The Dreamliner had been cruising at 40,000 feet and was about 600km north west of Donegal when the pilot declared an emergency at around 7.30am.

The plane was then forced to dump thousands of litres of fuel so it could land within safe weight limits.

The crew had been in contact with controllers at the Irish Aviation Authority's North Atlantic Communications Service centre at Ballygirreen, Co Clare and advised them that they had to shut down one of the jet's two engines.

Several units of Dublin Fire Brigade along with HSE ambulances and an incident officer were mobilised to the airport.

Engineers are now investigating the problem.

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