Flybe DASH 8 makes emergency landing at Newquay Airport

[freshgasflow]

The Dash 8 aircraft suffered hydraulics problems while en-route from Gatwick before landing at about 22:00 BST on Tuesday.

BBC News - Flybe plane makes emergency landing at Newquay Airport

[HEATHROW DIRECTOR]

I read the article several times but nowhere could I see any mention of an "emergency" landing ,except as below. In fact, it specifically says:

"It added that it was not an emergency landing "as defined by the Civil Aviation Authority".

So why sensationalise the matter?

[BOAC]

So why sensationalise the matter?

- poster was quoting the original BBC headline?

[DaveReidUK]

poster was quoting the original BBC headline?

In fact the OP is innocent of even that. He/she would simply have attached the BBC URL, and PPRuNe did the rest, including quoting the page title.

Now that the BBC have changed it, if you do the same thing it looks like this instead:

BBC News - Flybe plane lands at Newquay Airport after engine fluid leak

Presumably it had been changed by the time HD looked at the link.

[HEATHROW DIRECTOR]

The way I read the original headline is:

"Flybe plane lands at Newquay Airport after engine fluid leak"

Now I know that i am old, decrepit and have bad eyesight but I don't think the word "emergency" appears there.

[Cahlibahn]

HD, but it did in the original BBC headline, subsequently revised.

[BOAC]

He'll catch up! I guess the word 'original' confused him

[freshgasflow]

The original headline had emergency in it ...

Here is another site which has the original story ....

Flybe Dash 8 makes emergency landing at Belfast | Airline and Aviation Forums | Airnation.net Social Hangar

[DaveReidUK]

Here is another site which has the original story ....

Hmmm.

Spot the difference:

Flybe DASH 8 makes emergency landing at Newquay Airport

Flybe Dash 8 makes emergency landing at Belfast