By Olivier Acuña Barba •
Published: 06 Aug 2025 • 21:02
• 2 minutes read
A plane made an emergency landing. Three people were injured. Chaos at the terminal ensued | Credit: @sarcasm_scoop/X
A plane made an emergency landing at Birmingham Airport in the UK on Tuesday, August 6th, due to an in-flight emergency that left three passengers injured and caused the cancellation of 93 flights.
According to The Sun report, the Beech King Air plane was headed for Belfast, but diverted to Birmingham due to an emergency. The three people injured were treated at the scene, West Midlands Ambulance Service said. One other person had minor injuries.
“We were called at 1.45 pm to an incident involving a light aircraft at Birmingham Airport,” the ambulance rescue service said. “Hazardous Area Response Team (HART) paramedics and three paramedic officers were sent to the scene.”
‘A landing you don’t forget’
Some X users posted videos and photos. Robert L. Harrison (@einerDo13) posted his video, saying he filmed it “the moment a Beech B200 Super King Air makes an emergency landing at Birmingham Airport: landing gear up, fire crews on standby. Runway closed. Chaos followed. This kind of landing you don’t forget.”
“Upon arrival, we found three patients from the aircraft, all of whom were assessed and discharged at the scene,” it added.
The Beech B200 involved in the incident is of a similar model to one that was involved in a fireball crash at London Southend Airport on July 13th, The Sun noted. Four passengers died on board that plane.
“Following an aircraft incident that occurred this afternoon, operations are expected to remain suspended until at least 8 pm,” airport officials said in a statement on social media, in which they urged all travellers to check with their airline for further information and instructions.
21 flights diverted and dozens more cancelled
“We apologise for the inconvenience this has caused,” the airport statement added.
Nearly 100 flights are likely to be impacted, some of them with delays of up to five hours.
Twenty-one inbound flights have been forced to divert away from Birmingham Airport because of the incident.
The British news outlet said Ryanair and Jet2 flights have gone as far away as Stansted and Manchester airports instead.
Several flights listed on the departures page of the airport’s website, including to Paris Charles de Gaulle, Brussels and Belfast International, are cancelled. Others said delays were expected until around 7 pm.
Airport suspends operations
The Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) has been informed, and the airport has suspended operations as an investigation is carried out, The Sun said.
Birmingham Airport is the seventh-largest airport in the UK, the third biggest outside of London,
In 2023, it had about 11.5 million passengers and had about 130 direct routes served by 30 airlines.
