Flight Radar - snow go around!

[Peasnbeans]

Hi,
Passing the time watching Flight Radar.
Saw this, why would they turn around?

LS1937 from Newcastle to Fuerteventura fr24.com/EXS34S/389b369e

If you’re keen to find out then after they’ve landed it might be worth sticking the flight number in the search engine of your choice just in case somebody on boards tweets or whatever mode of comms is in fashion these days.

A lot of this stuff can be relatively routine and won’t make much of a ripple, even within internal company comms.

Not landed at Liverpool. Heading to Manchester now maybe.

Jet2 flight info are saying it’s diverting to Manchester and then still planning to take off again to Fuerteventura at 4pm ! 🤷‍♀️

That sort of timing would suggest it’s probably a passenger offload for some reason…

Be vaguely interesting to see how well placed the crew are for duty hours..

@notimagain do you happen to know what is the lowest altitude a plane can be at and still decide to abort the landing? I guess different planes have different commitment points but a ballpark for a commercial passenger plane would be interesting to know

It's down.

Wheels can be on the runway and still abort ! Have a look at Big Jet TV on You Tube , he has some videos of planes doing tap and run !

A pilot can still abort even when on the runway.

Zero feet.

You can actually abort the landing as late as just after touch down, the cut-off point is usually when the thrust reversers are selected, at that point you then have to stay down.

Doesn’t happen very often in the real world but it’s certainly something that gets thrown into the mix during recurrent simulator sessions,

One of Manchester airport's fire engine followed it along the taxiway. As a precaution, I imagine - it may have had a fair bit of fuel left on board. (IANAP)

Just been looking and what’s going on here !!?? Must have been circling for well over an hour

I have never seen a fluorescent green line that thick - when you zoom in on the app you can see it’a been circling for a while

It was a technical issue (as reported in the press) and it was burning fuel by circling. It had a lot of fuel as the Canaries are a long sector. The plane has repositioned back to NCL now.

Yep, that’s a consequence of multiple holds…either the flightradar tracking and/or the actual aircraft flight path hasn’t perfectly matched up each time round the holding pattern so you’ve ended up with the broad line.

Thank you.

I’m up following an Egypt air flight from Toronto to Cairo that’s currently diverting to Amsterdam , it said initially diverting to Manchester but it’s overflown uk and now heading to Amsterdam …

Unless Egyptair is very unlucky and they had two aircraft with probs last last night the rumour is they had a minor problem, one that didn’t necessitate an immediate landing but one they couldn’t carry all the way to Cairo.

Having changed course to divert it seems Manchester wouldn’t accept the flight unless they declared an emergency (probably a night noise/movement restriction), they didn’t want to do so so they carried on to Amsterdam.

Thanks for that @notimagain