A Virgin Atlantic plane was forced to request a priority landing at Heathrow after a passenger was taken ill on board.
The pilot of flight VS20 from San Francisco notified air traffic control of the medical emergency.
He was given permission to jump the queue of other aircraft waiting to land, said the London Evening Standard, and the aircraft was met by a medical team.
Responding to comments on Twitter that its flight had ‘declared an emergency", Virgin tweed: "The VS20 has been given a priority landing into LHR due to a customer requiring medical assistance (not an emergency landing)."
A spokeswoman for the airline said the plane had landed safely.
