Plane Forced to Make Emergency Landing After Engine Stops Mid-flight

Passengers endured a terrifying ordeal after their flight was forced to make an emergency landing after an engine failed.

MEP Catherine Stihler was on Flybe's BE6938 from Shetland to Inverness when she saw the engine stop in midair.

She tweeted: "Emergency landed in Kirkwall. An engine failed. Very very scary."

The Saab 340 turboprop operated by Loganair under contract from Flybe is designed to be able to fly on one engine, if one fails.

The flight started in Shetland and touched down in Kirkwall in Orkney to let people on and off.

But shortly after take off from Kirkwall at 5:30 p.m., the pilot warned the passengers to prepare themselves an emergency landing.

Last night Ms Stihler told the Scottish Daily Record : "One of the engines had just stopped, I was sitting next to it and could see it out the window."

"It felt that we were up there for a long time but it couldn't have been for more than 20 minutes. Obviously, you want to get down as quickly as you can."

"The pilot was fantastic and the staff she was fantastic, everyone kept calm. I fly all the time and in 16 years that is the first time that this has happened."

The flight was destined for Inverness.

Shetlanders and Western Isles passengers have been complaining for many months about Flybe flights being delayed or cancelled because of "technical" faults with aircraft.