- Reports a plane, flight VS43 tried to carry out an emergency landing near Gatwick Airport.
- Plane has been apparently dumping fuel over the English Channel, off Brighton
- Aviation experts predicted it could 'belly flop' land at Gatwick
- Royal Sussex County Hospital in Brighton, a major trauma centre for the South East, said it is on stand-by for a major incident
- It landed safely at Gatwick Airport at 3.45pm
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