Emergency providers swarm Ryanair airplane after it touched again down in UK an hour after take off
Emergency services were seen surrounding a Ryanair flight after it made a dramatic return to Manchester Airport just an hour after take off.
The Ryanair flight heading to Agadir, Morocco, took off from Manchester Airport at 4pm on Sunday, but landed back in the same city at 5pm.
The flight was diverted just minutes into the journey.
The pilot reportedly flew nine loops over the Manchester and Wigan regions begore landing back at the airport it left from.
Flight maps from FlightRadar24 showed the route the pilot took, turning left and northwards over parts of southern Manchester and circling over the Wigan area.
A Ryanair spokesperson said: ‘This flight from Manchester to Agadir (Sun, 16 Mar) returned to Manchester shortly after take-off due to a minor technical issue.
‘The aircraft landed normally at Manchester Airport and passengers disembarked.
‘To minimize disruption to affected passengers, we quickly arranged for a replacement aircraft to operate this flight, which departed to Agadir at 17:05 local that same day.
The Ryanair flight heading to Agadir, Morocco, took off from Manchester Airport at 4pm on Sunday, but landed back in the same city at 5pm
Flight maps from FlightRadar24 showed the route the pilot took, turning left and northwards over parts of southern Manchester and circling over the Wigan area
‘We sincerely apologise to affected passengers for any inconvenience caused.’
A livestream of the flight uploaded by Drones and Planes on YouTube captured the moment the pilot touched down in Manchester.
Fire crews were spotted surrounding the plane in dramatic scenes.
However, this may have reportedly been a standard measure carried out as precaution.
It comes after a Lisbon to London plane was diverted to Porto earlier in the week because of reported smoke on board.
The alert was sounded on Tuesday afternoon around 4.45pm, local media reported.
Data from FlightRadar24 showed that Flight TP1356 left Lisbon at 3.46pm local time for London’s Heathrow Airport before the diversion to Porto’s Francisco de Sa Carneiro Airport.
But at around 4:20pm, the plane, run by TAP Air, was seen making a loop over western Spain, heading back towards Porto.
It then landed at the Porto airport just after 5pm.
And an easyJet pilot was suspended after he flew a plane packed with 190 people so dangerously close to a mountain that he nearly crashed into it.
Captain Paul Elsworth was temporarily banned from flying after his plane flew too close over a mountain range as it travelled to Egypt on February 2, triggering a Ground Proximity Warning System (GPWS) alarm in the cockpit.
The plane, travelling from Manchester to the Red Sea resort of Hurghada, was very close to crashing as it descended for landing and could have potentially killed the 190 passengers and crew on-board, reported The Sun.
