Vancouver airport sees 2 emergency landings on Christmas Day

Emergency crews were kept on their toes Wednesday, dealing with two emergency landings at Vancouver International Airport (YVR).

A United Airlines flight coming from San Francisco early in the afternoon declared that it needed an emergency landing, due to potential mechanical issues.

United hasn’t specified what kinds of problems the flight was having. The airline says 120 passengers and 5 crew members were on board.

Fortunately, Vancouver was the intended destination, and the plane landed safely.

YVR says another emergency landing was required for an AirSprint — a private business jet company — flight.

It’s not known how many people were on board the Cessna aircraft, nor where the AirSprint flight had originally departed.

Like the United flight, the AirSprint flight was destined for Vancouver and landed with no difficulty.