Airport alert as jet forced to turn back to Edinburgh due to smoke in cockpit

By The Newsroom

Published 12th Dec 2012, 09:33 BST

A FULL-scale emergency was declared at Edinburgh Airport after a plane was forced to turn back shortly after taking off for London.

The British Airways flight had left the Capital about 12.40pm yesterday bound for Heathrow with no passengers on board, when the crew discovered smoke in the cockpit.

Fire crews were on the scene when the Boeing 767 aircraft, which had an engine replaced days earlier, landed at 1.10pm.