Passengers were left bemused when their flight from Dubai kept missing the runway on Easter Saturday
This is the bizarre route a pilot took after missing chances to land at Manchester Airport THREE TIMES.
Passengers were left "in a state" after the Emirates Airbus A380-800
pilot made the hat-trick of attempts to land while heavy winds from Storm Katie battered the country on Easter Saturday.
In footage from flightradar24.com the plane can be seen spinning around a number of times above Manchester, before heading to London Heathrow .
Passengers on board say they were told a computer glitch led to an inaccurate reading that the runway was ‘too short’.
However, the attempted landings after an eight-hour flight from Dubai came at the same time as heavy winds from Storm Katie battered Greater Manchester.
After the three ‘go-arounds’, the pilot was forced to take the plane to London Heathrow, where passengers waited for two hours before finally returning to Manchester for a fourth - and successful - landing attempt.
The huge EK-19 from Dubai arrived at 11.07pm - more than four hours late.
A passenger who asked not to be named, told the Manchester Evening News : “The pilot had to make three attempts to land."
“Some of the passengers were in a bit of a state," the passenger continued. "The gusts were so strong at Manchester that people were starting to panic.”
He said they diverted to Heathrow, where the remained on the Tarmac and refuelled, adding: “The pilot came over the PA system and said he thought that the software was giving some incorrect readings.”
During the first attempt at landing, the plane made it to 1,300ft before aborting and preparing for a second attempt - which failed at 1,100ft.
Switching runways, the captain tried again an hour after the first go - making it to 1,100ft before giving up and heading to London Heathrow.
Here it remained on the ground for two hours before heading back to Manchester for a fourth, final, and successful, landing.
Planespotters at Manchester Airport followed the action from below.
Many questioned whey they were unable to over-ride the computer system on board the super modern aircraft.
The Mirror Online has contacted Emirates for a response.
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