Fire crews were seen meeting a Jet2 flight after an emergency landing in Manchester on Sunday afternoon (January 5).
It is understood the flight, to Fuerteventura from Newcastle, made the diversion due to a ‘minor’ technical issue on board the aircraft.
The flight, which had been due to land in the Canary Islands at 2.10pm, was delayed taking off. The international airport in Newcastle was among others across the UK, including in Manchester, which had been hit by delays due to heavy snow overnight.
Fire crews met the aircraft as part of standard procedure
(Image: Sarwal Raj Harmesh Gopi)
The Jet2 flight eventually took off at around 12.42pm, according to the airline’s website, before diverting and making the emergency landing shortly after 3pm.
In pictures taken from the runway, multiple airport fire engines and vehicles could be seen meeting the aircraft. It is understood this is common practise in landings of this nature.
According to the flight path, as seen on Flightradar, the aircraft can be seen circling over the north west, including parts of Yorkshire, Greater Manchester and Cheshire before eventually being able to land.
The flight path before the landing
The M.E.N understands that all passengers were safe and were later transferred onto a new plane to continue their journey to Fuerteventura.
It comes hours after Manchester Airport warned of major delays after its runways were shut for hours on Sunday morning following heavy snowfall overnight.
The runways later reopened, but the airport warned of delays to flights throughout the day due to the clearing of runways and de-icing of aircraft.
Jet2 have been approached for a statement on the incident.