Overview
- Aurigny flight GR678, which departed Guernsey at about 5:17pm on Sunday, June 7, diverted to Southampton after a cockpit windscreen cracked mid‑flight and landed without injuries.
- The crew carried out a precautionary emergency landing under standard procedures and the airline arranged coach transfers for passengers while a different aircraft operated the delayed return service.
- Flight tracking and reports say the ATR 72 made a large turn near Basingstoke before diverting south to Southampton, showing the crew rerouted the short‑haul plane quickly after the problem appeared.
- The incident comes after Aurigny reduced some services earlier this year, introduced a temporary £2 fuel surcharge and faces new competition from a British Airways Guernsey–Heathrow route alongside higher fuel costs.
- Aurigny and regulators have not released technical findings into the windscreen failure, and the event has renewed calls for an updated Guernsey air policy to protect island connectivity and route resilience.