Jumbo makes emergency landing

A Boeing 747 jumbo jet carrying 430 people has made an emergency landing at Cork airport in the Republic of Ireland.

The KLM jet - en route from Queen Beatrix International Airport on the Dutch-owned Carribean holiday resort of Aruba to Amsterdam - was 250 miles off the west coast of Ireland when an emergency was declared.

It is understood that it was decided to make an emergency landing at the nearest airport after a fire warning indicator came on in the cockpit.

Emergency services were put on alert but the plane landed safely just after 1000 BST and no fire was detected on board.

Nobody was injured in the incident and passengers were expected to resume their journey on the same plane within three to four hours.

A spokesman for Ireland's airport operator Aer Rianta said: "The plane has landed safely and all the passengers are being disembarked. There was some kind of fire warning on board."