NINE passenger planes declared an emergency last night after they were prevent from landing at a major UK airport.
The flights were all bound for Gatwick but were stopped from getting their wheels down after another jet was met by airport rescue and firefighting services on the tarmac.
Nine flights were forced to declare an emergency after they weren’t able to land
The flight which halted on the runway had travelled from Palma
Those flights still in the air were then forced to declare an emergency likely due to low fuel, Flightradar24 reported.
The flight which stopped on Gatwick’s runway had landed from Palma de Mallorca at 12.12am.
Flights which declared an emergency had been travelling from holiday hotspots including Lanzarote, Rhodes, and Tenerife.
The planes in the air diverted to Stansted and Luton and the BA flight was able to eventually exit the runway.
One flyer who had been due to land at Gatwick from Tenerife instead landed at Stansted.
In a post to social media they said: “Still on the plane to see what’s happening next !! Hoping we can be flown back to Gatwick soon!
“It’s been much longer flight from Tenerife than usual.”
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