![]() "There was still a good tyre on the main landing gear and the pilot was able to land safely according to standard procedure. He said: "It is not hugely common but it is not uncommon either. "It seemed like it was going on for ages."Īn Air Malta spokesman said the crew followed "standard procedure" after suffering loss of pressure in the tyre. ![]() "My head was against the seat in front of me. "It was a really rocky landing - the worst I have been on. These guys have been through a difficult experience. Mr Walker from Bangor said: "The passengers had been told to go into the brace position for the landing. The passengers were put up in a hotel overnight and finally left Glasgow at 1100 BST on Thursday. The crew had reported a suspected problem with a tyre when Air Malta Flight KM197, with 137 passengers and five crew on board, took off at 1936 BST on Wednesday. Mr Walker said: "I was just overcome with relief when it stopped." Newlyweds Colin, 29, and Joy Walker, 28, from County Down, were on an Air Malta Boeing 737 which burst a tyre during take-off from Glasgow Airport.Įmergency services stood by as the plane circled the airport for three hours before landing safely. The Air Malta flight lands at Glasgow AirportĪ Northern Ireland couple have told of their terror after a plane taking them on honeymoon was at the centre of a safety alert in Scotland. Last Updated: Thursday, 2 September, 2004, 12:07 GMT 13:07 UK Hopefully she will be back flying by the end of the weekend though, and it's alway's good to know the situation was so well handled and got full support from all at GLA! There are rubber marks on the no.1 eng inbd fan cowl, fuselage fwd of the wing leading edge, fuselage aft of the trailing edge a couple of feet below the pax windows and also on the lower surface of the stab! (tread separation on rotation?).Ī couple of pipes were split around the L/h gear transfer valve hence loss of hydraulic pressure/fluid and the whole wheel well is swimming in skydrol! The falsework directly above the main wheel is punctured/buckled. Indeed no.2 tire has lost all tread from shoulder to shoulder and has a hole on outbd side (brake side) but is still on the hub although the bead has broken away from rim at brake side.Īftflap is pretty mangled, midflap has panel damage, and a dent in the leading edge at the inbd foreflap support track cut-out, and the foreflap has a dent in the leading edge adjacent to the support track at the inbd end. The captain of the aircraft, mainly carrying holiday-makers, called a state of emergency after it experienced problems with the undercarriage shortly after take-off from Glasgow at 7.30pm.Īll emergency services were tonight on stand-by as the crew prepared to land back at the airport almost three hours after becoming air-bourne. Passengers should contact their airline for information on the status of their flight, she added.Īt Gatwick, there had been no flights for 20 minutes between 06, an airport spokeswoman said.An Air Malta flight is circling Glasgow Airport to burn up fuel before making an emergency landing.Īirport operator BAA said the Boeing 737, with 143 people on board, suffered hydraulic failure on take-off.Įmergency services have been placed on stand-by and a Royal Navy search and rescue helicopter has been sent to the scene.īAA spokesman Malcolm Robertson said full-scale emergency procedures have been activated at the airport.Īn Air Malta plane carrying 143 passengers is making an emergency landing at Glasgow Airport, an airport spokesman said. "We are experiencing delays across some flights of up to 90 minutes, which we expect to reduce throughout the day," she said. Major delays were caused at airports including Gatwick, Heathrow, Manchester, Glasgow and Inverness.Īn initial suspension of departing flights ended when Air Traffic Control switched to a manual back-up system.Īt Heathrow, the UK's busiest airport, there were no departures at all between 06 BST.Ī spokeswoman for the British Airports Authority (BAA) said Heathrow had returned to full operations by late morning and was "well on the road to recovery" from the disruption. Gatwick was among the airports affected by the computer failureĪirports across the UK were returning to normal on Thursday after a failure of the computer system that handles flights in and out of the country.
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