Flight radar - storm Eowyn version

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As the title says - I am in the red zone and still some flights attempting and some managing to land. Just watched one diverted from Glasgow to MAN. One manage to land at Edinburgh whilst one right behind it looks to be diverted- another flight from Italy due to land in Edinburgh in 2 mins but can't yet find the plane. Wild that these are still scheduled and some still not cancelled throughout the highest forecast winds of the day. Must be very scary being on these planes! My house in Edinburgh already sounds like the roof is about to be lifted off!

I'm watching that one too.

Ryanair seem very ‘determined’ to fly their routes.( even when others have cancelled).

Who knows! I was chatting to my friend about it before it tried to land and she said probably turning around back to Dublin. She jinxed it haha.

So pleased I am not on it!

Yet a Jet2 plane has just landed at the first attempt at Newcastle, minutes after the Ryanair one gave up after circling for what seemed like hours.

That's the sort of sods law that usually happens to me. Wait for ages, give up and do something else, then the thing you were waiting for turns up.

This one just aborted landing and with another from Malaga following it.

A couple of minutes later, the plane landed to take the Newcastle United team down to Southampton later today. It was empty which makes it even more difficult to land and the pilot made it look like a piece of cake!

A further Jet 2 plane has also landed since.

Ryanair Manchester to Derry - wondered why it had even taken off as the winds here in NI are still bad - seems they have had a wee loop of Donegal and are heading back to Manchester!

I wonder what determines being able to land? Gusts at the time? Pilot confidence/skill?

Am I reading this right. A flight to Glasgow has been diverted to Krakow? Surely not?!

I suspect that airline's next flight is departing from Krakow so to avoid it being in the wrong place, they're sending the plane there.

The people who've spent hours today not getting from Manchester to Glasgow, which I'm surprised anyone would bother flying tbh, unless perhaps you live near Manchester Airport, don't drive and can't use the train for some reason, they'll send back separately.

How long have you got?

The main one is the (defined by the manufacturer) crosswind limits/guidlines p for each aircraft type, if the wind is reported as being above those limits that then you’re going to go around..and yes, gusts come into play - if you are lucky and arrive in a “lull” things might be in limits and you can land, if you arrive in the gusts you might have to throw the landing away.

Beyond that there’s often a requirement to be stable with no major speed and other flightpath changes below a height defined by the operator - sometimes turbulence can make that impossible to achieve, so it’s a go around.

There are other factors besides but those would be the main two…

Just looked up that Buzz is actually a Polish airline, so probably Krakow is their base.

@notimagain So the fact that Jet2 were able to land 3 planes at Newcastle just after Ryanair gave up after flying around multiple times is likely because they use different aircraft with different limits?

There's a couple of Malaga to Leeds flights where the Jet2 landed and RA has diverted to Manchester too (although Jet2 ALC to LBA appears to have diverted to Birmingham somewhere else as it past Brum while I was posting).

It's the morning flight from krakow to Glasgow that had to divert to Manchester. They got a new flight number and tried Glasgow again but were unsuccessful so flying back to krakow.

@muffinlove the Manchester to Glasgow flight was already scheduled. Due to depart at 10 am but was delayed

Ah, so no-one was planning on flying from Manchester to Glasgow?

@Bjorkdidit pretty sure I was replying to a different comment of yours, to which my answer made more sense but can’t find it now anyway 🤷🏻‍♀️

A380 about to take off from Manchester-
What a massive plane that is!

It was around seven o clock they diverted. So enough time to get new flight number. And why would polish carrier fly flights between Manchester and Glasgow

This seems bold (Inverness!):

https://www.flightradar24.com/EZY686L/38d9eddd

Buzz are a subsidiary of Ryan air, hence the Ryan air flight numbers!

It's mentioned in flight radar Facebook group that it was the diverted flight.

Manchester to Londonderry, diverted to Manchest. Large loop and a trip of 1.50.

A small jet looping Manchester from Luton.

Well if it was I hope they gave the passengers the option to remain in Manchester rather than attempt an almost guaranteed failure to land in Glasgow to then get carted back to Poland 😅

Ok so I've just read an official explanation and apparently it was that plane but it returned from Manchester empty to pick up the passengers it was meant to take on its return journey from Glasgow to krakow however failed to do that part and returned empty to krakow (only to struggle to land due to fog according to comments)