Two planes bound for the US made emergency landings at Irish airports today.
A second plane has made an emergency landing after a passenger fell ill aboard a US-bound flight.
The Boeing 777-300 aircraft made an emergency landing at Shannon Airport earlier this afternoon.
British Airways flight BA-193 was en route from London to Dallas, Texas when the crew declared a medical emergency and requested permission to divert and land at Shannon.
The passenger has since been transported to University Hospital Limerick for treatment and the flight continued on its journey shortly before 4pm.
It was the second time today that a passenger flight diverted to an Irish airport.
An Ethiopian Airlines flight en route to Washington DC landed safely at Dublin Airport having declared an emergency.
Flight ET500, a Boeing 787-800 Dreamliner, was flying from Addis Ababa via Dublin to Washington Dulles International Airport.
It returned to Dublin Airport having shut down one of its engines and landed safely at around 8.35am.
The plane had initially landed this morning on a routine fuel stop at 4.45am. It took off at 6.10am but had to return after it reported technical difficulties.
UPDATE Ethiopian #ET500 safely landed in Dublin with one engine shut down https://t.co/PoWJYO9ZlF (pic: @pilot_ngb) pic.twitter.com/ZBh8VbJogF
— AirLive.net (@airlivenet) October 23, 2015
The Dreamliner had been cruising at 40,000 feet and was about 600km north west of Donegal when the pilot declared an emergency at around 7.30am.
The plane was then forced to dump thousands of litres of fuel so it could land within safe weight limits.
The crew had been in contact with controllers at the Irish Aviation Authority's North Atlantic Communications Service centre at Ballygirreen, Co Clare, and advised them that they had to shut down one of the jet's two engines.
Several units of Dublin Fire Brigade along with Health Service Executive ambulances and an incident officer were mobilised to the airport.
Engineers are now investigating the problem.
