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Leonard Berberi
It happened on Sunday 28 December: once off the coast of France the plane issued the emergency code and asked to return to the United Kingdom. What happened
People were injured on Sunday afternoon on board a Ryanair flight from Birmingham to Tenerife after the plane encountered turbulence at high altitude. The Boeing 737 Max — with 197 seats on board — then returned to the United Kingdom to allow medical staff to treat those in need.
Flight FR1211 took off from Birmingham, United Kingdom, at 3.05pm local time (4.05pm in Italy) on Sunday 28 December with destination Tenerife South, Spain. But once at an altitude of 37,000 feet (11,278 meters) and about fifty kilometers from Brest, France, the aircraft began to turn left to turn back, raising an alarm with the code “7700” (emergency).
The return, according to the data provided by the monitoring platform Flightradar24 seems to proceed following a regular trajectory, but then the pilots begin a descent that takes them in about ten minutes to just over three thousand meters above sea level. The Boeing 737 Max landed about 50 minutes later and emergency services later responded.
According to some testimonies it was underway at that time cabin service and flight attendants were passing trolleys in the aisle when the plane encountered turbulence which caused minor injuries to some of the people on board.
«Flight FR1121 has returned to Birmingham Airport shortly after takeoff due to air turbulence”, he explains via email to Courier a Ryanair spokeswoman. «The aircraft landed normally, after which the passengers disembarked and returned to the terminal, where a small number of them were provided with medical assistance. The flight then continued to Tenerife at 9.06pm local time.”
December 29, 2025
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