Original: Edinburgh Airport outlines 2030 vision Accidents On 27 February 2001 , a Loganair Shorts 360 ( G-BNMT ) operating a Royal Mail flight to Belfast , crashed into the Firth of Forth shortly after taking off from Edinburgh at 1730 GMT .
Simplified: Accidents In February of 2001 a Shorts 360 crashed shortly after taking off from Edinburgh airport .