Dozens of emergency service vehicles descended on Glasgow Airport's runway this evening after a flight was forced to return to the runway.

Eyewitnesses claim to have spotted around 12 fire engines, ambulances and incident response vehicles at the side of the runway shortly after 7pm this evening.

They told the Evening Times: "A plane landed and the emergency services were guiding it in along runway, but I could not see where it went.

"The emergency services were all over the whole airport from what I could see."

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A Glasgow Airport spokesperson confirmed that an FlyBe flight heading to Southampton had declared an emergency on board, sparking the response.

The flight returned to the airport safely where passengers dissembarked before being put on an alternate plane.

Crews from the Scottish Fire and Rescue service were drafted in to help with the incident.

However a spokesperson for the service confirmed they were immediately stood down as their services were no longer required.

A spokesperson for the airline said: "Flybe can confirm that the captain of the above flight elected to return from airborne due to a technical fault with the aircraft.

"Having taken all necessary action, it landed safely without further incident and taxi-ed to stand where all 60 passengers disembarked as normal.

"As is standard procedure, the airport put its emergency vehicles on local standby as a precautionary measure.

"Passengers were re-accommodated on an alternate aircraft to complete their travel to Southampton, arriving with a 2hour and 8 minute delay.

"The safety of its passengers and crew remains the airline’s number one priority and Flybe apologises for any inconvenience caused."