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The scene at Dublin Airport this morning Image: Glenn Fitzgerald

Second emergency landing at Dublin Airport since this morning

A Delta 767 from New York and a private Gulfstream jet landed safely at the airport after declaring emergencies, in separate incidents.

THERE HAVE BEEN two incidents of aircraft using Dublin Airport declaring emergencies since this morning. In both cases, the planes landed safely.

A Dublin-bound Delta jet flying from JFK in New York made an emergency landing at the facility at 9.20am.

It’s believed the Boeing 767-300 was experiencing problems with one of its engines.

A spokesperson for the Dublin Airport Authority said the the airport’s fire service attended the scene, which is “standard procedure” for such events. She added:

All passengers were taxied to the terminal as normal. There were no injuries on board.

At 2.30 this afternoon a private Gulfstream jet declared an emegency. The fire service again responded and the emergency was stood down at 3pm.

“The plane landed safely,” according to the DAA.

Earlier this month, a Delta 767 had to make an emergency landing at Shannon. The plane was en route from Milan to Atlanta when it was diverted to the Irish airport after a problem arose.

- Additional reporting by Christina Finn

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    Aug 21st 2013, 8:23 PM

    They are really pulling out all the stops for the gathering! Installing giant magnets at Dublin airport to attract more planes

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    Mute Catherine O'Connor
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    Aug 22nd 2013, 7:35 AM

    They will soon want to return home when they see how expensive everything is here!!!

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    Aug 21st 2013, 5:55 PM

    Delta has an ageing fleet of Boeing aircraft, it’s time to borrow some money and upgrade.

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    Mute N O'C
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    Aug 22nd 2013, 1:16 AM

    Soon to merge with US Airways, who also have an ageing Boeing fleet. Extremely uncomfortable on a long haul. Maybe between them the can replace a few

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    Mute Barry Farrell
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    Aug 22nd 2013, 12:13 PM

    N O’C – Delta merged with Northwest a few years back. US Airways is supposed to merge with American Airlines (unless the US Dept of Justice is successful trying to block it).

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    Mute Gerry McNally
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    Aug 21st 2013, 8:06 PM

    I was on an aer lingus flight from dusseldorf to Dublin on Monday night. We were informed of an issue with primary hydraulics failure 30 minutes before landing. We were told by captain we would have a ‘blue light landing. Emergency services everywhere. We landed ok but this never hit the headlines. It was a scary eery feeling.

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    Aug 21st 2013, 7:17 PM

    I dont know if i might be wrong in this but there Seems to be an excesive amout of planes emergency landing here over the past few months …. either that or the journal are sitting out by the airport daily with scanners

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    Mute John Quinn
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    Aug 21st 2013, 7:05 PM

    This is why I paid extra for my trip next year. Delta was almost €150 cheaper, but I’d rather pay a little more and arrive intact.

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    Aug 21st 2013, 5:41 PM

    Things like this usual come in three’s. Expect another one.

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    Aug 21st 2013, 5:54 PM

    Come in three’s or land in trees?

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    Aug 21st 2013, 5:56 PM

    Hopefully they don’t happen in threes as I’m on the runway in Birmingham waiting to take off !!
    Oops phones off !!!

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    Aug 21st 2013, 6:11 PM

    The firemen/emergency response guys are earning their money today

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    Aug 21st 2013, 6:18 PM

    No point turning your phone off. Does the pilot turn his off? Thought not…

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    Aug 22nd 2013, 12:22 AM

    And women Nelly :) there are a lot of females in the fire service as well. just saying.

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    Aug 21st 2013, 5:54 PM

    Thankfully we have the emergancy staff on the ground to put themselves in harms way to help others.

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    Aug 21st 2013, 5:57 PM

    Wow.. Did u just make up a twitter account in the last 5 minutes just so you could try crack a very unfunny joke?

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    Aug 21st 2013, 5:53 PM

    Taught it was mainly monkeys that come in trees

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    Aug 21st 2013, 5:58 PM

    Thought*

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    Mute Glen
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    Aug 21st 2013, 8:23 PM

    Grammar police *

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    Aug 22nd 2013, 9:02 AM

    Spelling police*

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    Aug 21st 2013, 7:55 PM

    May by a shí5 load of ladybirds got stuck in the engines

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    Aug 21st 2013, 6:07 PM

    Shocking stuff

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    Aug 21st 2013, 6:06 PM

    I did ya muppet

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    Aug 21st 2013, 5:54 PM

    I moved out to the bush !

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    Aug 21st 2013, 6:37 PM

    Next,it will be normal to declare an emergency,just to get ahead of the queue.Its so busy now, trying to get a landing, anything. goes,but what of the boy that cried Wolf.

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    Aug 21st 2013, 6:33 PM

    There is something going wrong in the aviation sector, that is plane to see.

    Monocycles are the only job.

    Garth, that’s a haiku.

    Whoaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.

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    Aug 21st 2013, 9:17 PM

    It’s those lights that are attracting them….

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    Aug 22nd 2013, 2:37 AM

    Never mind emergancy landings Watch Aircrash Confidential and it would put you off flying for life!!

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