A passenger plane from Turkey to Spain was reportedly flanked by warplanes after it declared an emergency.
The Turkish Airlines plane was en route from Istanbul to Barcelona when pilots alerted the air traffic controllers.
The plane carrying 148 passengers and seven crew members was escorted by Spanish and French warplanes over the Mediterranean, El Nacional reports.
The Airbus A321 plane had just passed Sardinia when the pilots sent an emergency code often used in medical situations or other incidents requiring special assistance, flight tracking data shows.
Flight TK1853 circled three times over the sea before landing at Barcelona El Prat Airport at about 10am.
Catalonia’s government said it has activated a special plan used for aeronautical emergencies to ‘monitor the risk situation on a flight landed at El Prat.’
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