Wizz Air UK Flight London Gatwick-Agadir Declares Emergency

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G-WUKX is the Airbus A321neo operating this flight.

Updates: Wizz Air UK Flight London Gatwick-Agadir Declares Emergency…

This is a developing story. Updates below.

UPDATE #1 @ 1808 UK time – Wizz Air flight W95759 bound for Agadir continues to cruise back northwards back in the direction of London Gatwick.

UPDATE #2 @ 1809 UK time – G-WUKX, the aircraft involved in this emergency is a 0.2 year old Airbus A321neo that was delivered to the airline back in October 2023, so a very new aircraft.

Of the A321neo variant, the UK subsidiary of the Hungarian carrier has 15 of them in the fleet, as per data from Planespotters.net.

UPDATE #3 @ 1811 UK time – At this stage, it is unclear what the nature of the emergency is, but is serious enough to force a return back to London Gatwick and not continue onwards to Agadir.

UPDATE #4 @ 1816 UK time – No rapid descent has taken place during this emergency broadcast, which indicates the ruling out of a pressurisation issue onboard the Wizz Air Airbus A321neo. Again, it’s too early to speculate at this point.

UPDATE #5 @ 1819 UK time – W95759 has stopped the use of the emergency 7700 squawk and has changed over to 5260 instead. Will continue to monitor the aircraft until it’s arrival.

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