Bee forces Flybe aircraft to make emergency landing

A service with airline Flybe had to turn back after a bee became lodged in one of its instruments.

The appropriately-named flight BE384 was travelling from Southampton to Dublin on Friday when it hit insect trouble.

A spokeswoman said: "Flybe can confirm that flight BE384 travelling to Dublin returned from airborne to Southampton following a suspected technical issue. The aircraft landed without incident and all passengers disembarked as normal.

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"Upon inspection, Flybe engineers did discover that the cause of the issue was a bee that had become lodged in an item of instrumentation on the outside of the aircraft.

Plane makes emergency landing at Southampton, this weekend, due to a bee lodged in instruments.The airline? Flybe! pic.twitter.com/WkUv7eGXdW

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"The safety of its passengers and crew is the airline's number one priority and Flybe regrets any inconvenience experienced as a result of the delay to this flight."