A Super Puma yesterday sparked a full scale emergency at Aberdeen International Airport with 3 fire crews sent to the airport as a precaution. 

The drama unfolded after the CHC Super Puma L2 asked for priority landing. CHC have not disclosed much details saying only that it was not a technical issue and that a CHC helicopter landed safely at Aberdeen International Airport at approximately 3.30pm on Friday.

A Police Scotland spokeswoman said: “We were made aware of an emergency landing at 3.30pm. Everyone is safe and officers attended at the scene as a precaution.”

A Scottish Fire and Rescue Service spokeswoman confirmed that three fire crews were called to the airport.

Emergency crews were stood down from the scene at 3.47pm.

The drama was the airports second emergency of the day, earlier an inbound Eastern Airways flight from Scatsta Airport in Shetland was forced to make an emergency landing when the crew reported an “unusual odour” in the cockpit. 

Earlier in the week another offshore helicopter, a Bristow operated Sikorsky S-92A was forced to return to Sumburgh when a warning light came on.