A flight from Lisbon to London Heathrow has declared an emergency while entering Britain’s airspace.
British Airways flight BA519 departed Lisbon Airport at 18:33 WEST delayed almost 2 hours compared to scheduled time.
The Airbus A319 (registration G-EUPG) was scheduled to land at 19:10 BST at London Heathrow.
Pilots have declared an emergency (squawk 7700) while starting approach to LHR to require a priority landing due to issue with the nose gear servo preventing steering the aircraft on the ground according to exclusive source to AIRLIVE. The aircraft suffered the same problem on flight BA518 (London to Lisbon).
UPDATE 20:50 BST
Landings are switched from runway 27L to runway 27R.
UPDATE 20:58 BST
Flight BA519 is now on final approach to runway 27L.
UPDATE 21:05 BST
The A319 has landed on runway 27L, met by emergency vehicles.
UPDATE 21:07 BST
The aircraft has vacated the runway.
UPDATE 21:09 BST
Aircraft on stand by on taxiway to be inspected, met by fire trucks.
UPDATE 21:15 BST
Landings are resuming on runway 27L.
UPDATE 21:18 BST
The aircraft is escorted by fire trucks.
UPDATE 21:24 BST
Now on stand A14 at terminal 5.
