East Midlands incident.
 

M1 closed near East Midlands Airport for Jet2 emergency.

Move on, nothing to see here.

Why that was even reported is beyond me, but to mention the Kegworth crash in this article is just beyond ridiculous.

And, from the BBC link above, "Highways England, which manages the motorway, tweeted to alert motorists to the "aircraft emergency" and motorway closure." Beggars belief with tougher penalties announced just 5 days ago...

Possibly because closing a motorway in response to an aircraft emergency isn't an everyday occurrence ?

Well yes, had the Jet2 come down on a running motorway maybe drivers would have been equally lucky on this occasion ...

There's a different between a non-event and an event that concluded safely. :O

Except it wasn't an emergency.

Can you elaborate?

So what was it...??

It was the police and the wombles who used the term emergency.

A spokesman for East Midlands Airport said:
"It was a Jet2 aircraft - the pilot called for emergency services because of a problem with the fuel box. Emergency services were called as a precaution."

Clearly he was squawking 7700 for the last 30 minutes of the flight just to test his transponder. :ugh:

Or was he asked to by ATC?

Jet2 emergency closes M1
 

Anyone have any more info on this?
M1 closed near East Midlands Airport for Jet2 emergency - BBC News

A what????

The whole story is a load of :mad: about a ridiculous over-reaction. Since when does any Perf. A aircraft "fault indication" require a motorway to be shut down? But the phraseology is the typical guff I expect a from a bunch of limp-wristed, progressive arts graduates employed by civic amenities: "a clear flight path" - my arse. Exactly how low does this dross expect an aircraft to fly? Were ATC told to calculate a flight path such that if any catastrophic failure took place Derby and Nottingham would be safe? What other precautions took place? And as AM stated, what **** for brains thought tweeting motorists would be a good idea? How exactly were they meant to read the bloody thing?

All of those involved in this over-reaction should be publicly drowned in a bucket of water - either that or used for medical experiments. Our world will be better off without them.

Like it or not, we're living in an increasingly litigious age.

I'd guess that there are some at Leics Police and/or EMA ATC who have longer memories than most.

Over-reaction ? Almost certainly, yes.

But that's a sign of the times we're living in, and not just in matters relating to aviation.

Were they thinking of the Hunter accident at Shoreham? Maybe some bureaucrat somewhere has issued an advisory to all the constabulary?

Good grief if there's much more of this nonsense there's not much hope for us!

This sort of bevaviour shouldn't be normalised - whoever thought this through should stick to writing stories with the imagination they must have.

We may as well get used to it, it's unlikely to be the last instance of this kind.

To be fair to the police, they were between a rock and a hard place. As soon as they were informed (presumably by ATC or EMA/EXS ops) that there was flight with a declared emergency inbound on 27, doing nothing wasn't an option and closing the motorway was inevitable..

We can't expect the police to be aviation technical experts able to distinguish between various flavours of emergency. Even without the shadow of Shoreham, they weren't to know whether they might be looking at another potential BD92.

Hindsight is a wonderful thing ...