Flight crews aboard an airline bound for East Midlands Airport were forced to declare an on-board emergency when a passenger had a panic attack.
The 148-seater plane landed safely at 2.10pm today at the Castle Donington airport.
The Jet2 flight (LS686) had been in the air for about two hours, on its way from Faro, in Portugal, when crews called ahead to make ground staff aware of the medical issue involving a man in his 40s.
A spokeswoman for the East Midlands Ambulance service, which handled the incident, said: "We received a pre-alert at 13:53 reporting a patient on a flight into East Midlands Airport who was suffering from a panic attack.
"A crew was dispatched and waited at the airport for the plane to land."
It is not known whether the man was taken to hospital.
A spokeswoman for East Midlands Airport said it was normal for airline staff to radio through and ask for assistance with medical issues.
She said: "The plane was due to land here anyway so there was no emergency landing, but the crew had to call through because there was a passenger who had fallen ill. This is just normal procedure for an aircraft."
A spokesman for Jet2 said: "The landing was simply because of a medical situation involving a passenger, who is now in the care of the paramedics."
