Marrakech-Brest flight diverted to Porto after depressurisation
By the AFREEQUE newsroom, based on Bladi
A Transavia Boeing 737 flying from Marrakech to Brest was diverted to Porto on 30 October after a cabin depressurisation, and four passengers received medical assistance. One was hospitalised with severe head pain, according to Flightradar24 flight history and the Portuguese press.
A Transavia flight from Marrakech to Brest was diverted to Porto on Friday 30 October after a cabin depressurisation. Four passengers received medical assistance on arrival, according to Portugal’s National Institute of Medical Emergency (INEM), quoted by the Lusa news agency in Observador.
One of the four passengers, who was suffering from severe head pain, was taken to hospital. The other three were treated at the scene. Porto’s Francisco Sá Carneiro Airport had issued a level 1 alert, the lowest level of its emergency response system, to prepare for the aircraft’s arrival.
The Boeing 737-800, registered as F-GZHM, was operating flight TO9813 between Marrakech Menara Airport and Brest. The following day, another Transavia flight from Paris-Orly to Agadir turned back to its departure airport, according to flight tracking reported by Bladi. The second incident is covered in the report on the Transavia flight to Agadir.
