A SWISS Airbus A320neo operating flight LX1255 from Stockholm Arlanda Airport (ARN) to Zurich Airport (ZRH) diverted to Hamburg Airport (HAM), Germany, yesterday morning, October 13, 2026, following a medical emergency on board. Flight-tracking records identify the aircraft as HB-JDH and show that it continued to Zurich later that day.
AirNav Radar's emergency alert list records the Hamburg arrival at 07:58 local time, Central European Summer Time (CEST, UTC+2), equivalent to 13:58 in Taipei on October 13. The site labels this as an arrival-at-gate time derived from airline or airport information, rather than a precise touchdown time. Its individual flight page separately shows 08:15. Given that discrepancy between public pages, this article places the diversion at approximately 08:00 local time without asserting an exact touchdown minute.
According to German news agency dpa, a SWISS spokesperson confirmed that 156 passengers were on board and that the affected passenger was handed over to medical personnel in Hamburg. The airline said the crew transmitted an emergency signal to minimise delays to landing and planned to continue to the original destination after refuelling.
Flightradar24 also reported that LX1255 transmitted transponder code 7700 while descending near Hamburg that day. This general emergency code alerts air traffic control to an emergency but does not identify its cause. In this case, the airline confirmed that the diversion resulted from a medical emergency.
Flightradar24's flight history for HB-JDH records take-off from Hamburg at 08:50 local time on October 13 and landing in Zurich at 09:48 local time. Both airports were observing CEST (UTC+2), corresponding to 06:50 and 07:48 UTC, or 14:50 and 15:48 in Taipei. Public reports did not disclose the passenger's specific condition or subsequent medical outcome.
