Planes were forced to reroute prior to landing last night (Tuesday, April 11) as strong winds battered parts of the UK. One Jet2 flight, the LS892 from Lanzarote to Manchester, was diverted to Birmingham and was spotted 'tilting' in the air before the pilot circled and rerouted to Birmingham Airport, the Manchester Evening News reports.
The procedure is known as a 'go-around', which is the aborting of the landing of an aircraft that is on the final approach or has already touched down. Another Jet2 flight, the LS782 from Gran Canaria, was also due to land in Manchester and was divered 163 miles away to Newcastle when its flight path showed the plane circling over the region numerous times.
A member of the Manchester Airport Facebook group on Tuesday evening posted a screenshot of the Jet2 Lanzarote to Manchester flight (LS892) path. Their post read: "Did anybody just witness this aircraft over Stockport? I thought it was falling from the sky."
Sharing a picture of the aircraft flying low over south Manchester, one person wrote: "Winds really strong. I live on Shadow Moss and they've been getting knocked around all afternoon." Another commented: "Yes me too, I watched it. Was tilting left very bad." A third added: "It’s gone around heading south, very strong winds tonight."
FlightRadar24 reports the flight - which departed the Canary Islands at around 3pm - lowered to an around 2,300ft altitude over Stockport as it approached Manchester airport, before ultimately turning and rerouting to Birmingham, where it landed at around 7:30pm. The LS782 flight meanwhile from Gran Canaria to Manchester Airport appeared to abandon its landing in Manchester at around 6:50pm, when it lowered to around 1,000 ft before circling numerous times over parts of Bolton and Lancashire.
The flight path on FlightRadar24 then shows the aircraft divert and travel more than 100 miles north towards Newcastle Airport and landing shortly before 8pm. When approached by the M.E.N, Jet2 confirmed that both flights had been diverted due to the weather conditions and that passengers would receive transport on a coach back to Manchester.
It comes after the Met Office warned that heavy rain and winds of around 40mph were set to hit Greater Manchester with a yellow weather warning in place for parts of the UK throughout the afternoon.
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