Flybe flight makes emergency landing at Birmingham Airport

The Bombardier Q400, similar to this, was forced to make an emergency landing at Birmingham Airport

A Flybe plane made an emergency landing with only one working engine at Birmingham Airport.

The pilot shut down one of the aircraft's engines mid-air as a safety precaution after a technical fault.

Flybe said the BE 321 flight from Aberdeen Airport landed without incident, just before 10:00 BST on Monday. All 47 passengers disembarked as normal.

It apologised and said safety was "the airline's number one priority".

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The plane was met by the airport's emergency service vehicles as a precaution.

Last month a Flybe Q400 travelling from Scotland to Northern Ireland also made an emergency landing after developing a technical fault.