Flight E45087, operated by Enter Air, was flying from Warsaw to Paphos via Rhodes on Thursday, carrying 187 passengers, when one of them faced a medical emergency mid-flight and the pilot had to land in Turkey.
Media reports say the medical emergency was handled at the Turkish airport and then the pilot filed a new flight plan with Paphos as a destination.
But Turkish authorities refused to approve a flight plan from Antalya to the Republic of Cyprus, forcing the pilots to file a new plan back to the Greek island of Rhodes, which was the flight’s last stop.
The flight, which was scheduled to arrive at 11:05 am, finally landed in Paphos at 2:49pm, – a delay of four hours – while the patient and a fellow passenger stayed behind in Antalya.