AN INCIDENT at Prestwick Airport lead to three coastguard teams responding to a potential emergency landing.

The RNLI Troon Lifeboat, Ayr Coastguard Rescue Team and Ardrossan Coastguard Rescue Team were called out shortly after 11am on Thursday, May 18 to respond to an emergency incident at Prestwick Airport.

The teams, along with other emergency services, responded to a potential inbound aircraft declaring an in-flight emergency.

Whilst proceeding to the incident, an update was received from CGOC Belfast Coastguard advising the plane had landed safely and the teams were free to stand down and return to their stations.

A spokesman for RNLI Troon Lifeboat, said: "We were told there was a plane that declared an emergency landing at Prestwick Airport due to there being a failure in the hydraulics in one of the engines.

"We were told that the plane was carrying on and landed at a RAF base near by so luckily nothing came of it."