Dozens of people were stranded in Europe for a second night on Saturday after their U.S.-bound flight made an emergency landing in Dublin following an engine failure, passengers said.
Brussels Airlines flight 102 was en route from Brussels to New York on Friday when pilots issued a “pan-pan” message, which indicates an urgent but manageable problem, less serious than a “mayday,” when flying west at 37,000 feet over the Celtic Sea, aviation media and tracking websites said.
Pilots of the 12-year-old Airbus A330-300 requested to divert to Shannon in western Ireland but switched to Dublin on instructions from the airline, according to Aviation Herald, an independent website which tracks airplane incidents.