think it is a move, an earlier flight was diverted to Manchester. This one doesn’t seem able to land either.
Not followed this AM in details but basically as far as LBA and MAN are concerned it's not been unusual to divert to MAN, get the passengers off and away across the Pennines by bus and then maybe try to reposition the aircraft/crew later..
I was considering why the airline would try this when others can’t land, whether they consider this is I assume an empty plane (just pilot and navigator perhaps crew who need to be in Leeds..)
For info I'm not sure there have ever been navigators on Shorthaul airliners and they disappeared as a specialist function on Longhaul airliners not long after WW2.
It then became full time job done by one of the co-pilots (they'd alternate navigating and flying sectors with the other co-pilot on the crew) and by around 1970 with the advent of stuff like internal navigation, which meant time consuming tasks like performing star shots were not needed, the role of monitoring the navigation became one of the jobs the pilots do..there's no navigator at all, even on long range trans-oceanic airliners..