A passenger flight traveling from Spain to the UK declared an in-flight emergency as it flew over the English Channel this afternoon. The Jet2 Boeing 737-800 aircraft departed Alicante-Elche Miguel Hernández Airport bound for Glasgow before things went wrong over the ocean. The flight appeared routine for the first two hours of the journey until the aircraft reached the airspace between northern France and the southern coast of England, the AirLive website reports. Ensure our latest headlines