Hydraulic leak triggers emergency landing of Emirates A380 at London's Gatwick Airport.
On Tuesday evening, an Emirates Airbus A380 was forced to perform an emergency landing at London's Gatwick Airport due to a malfunction in its landing gear.
Registered as A6-EUN, the aircraft was en route from Dubai to Gatwick when it experienced a technical glitch. The flight crew promptly sought emergency support after detecting an issue linked to a hydraulic leak in the plane's front landing gear, as per initial evaluations.
Following an emergency maneuver, the superjumbo came to a standstill on the runway, exhibiting a slightly askew orientation. It seemed incapable of turning off the runway autonomously, necessitating the intervention of an airport tug to guide it off the primary runway and towards a parking slot.
The incident necessitated a temporary halt in the airport's runway operations, confirmed a spokesperson for Gatwick. "Our team exerted every effort to relocate the aircraft from the runway in the shortest possible time," the spokesperson added. The unexpected incident caused minor disruptions to the airport's schedule, with several flights experiencing delays of up to forty-five minutes.
