An American Airline flight which took off from Manchester heading for JFK airport New York was forced to turn back to England today after declaring an emergency mid-flight over the Irish Sea.
The flight took off at about 10:32 am from Manchester was a 7 hour flight to JFK, but turned around east of Dublin and landed back at Manchester about an hour later at 11.24 am.
The plane which reached an altitude of 30,000ft and a ground speed of about 430 knots around a half-hour into the flight before it began turning around over the Irish Sea because it experienced what airline officials termed "maintenance issue".
Emergency services were photographed as the Boeing 767 returned to Manchester Airport and the airline told passengers in a tweet that 'safety is our top priority'.
'We were in the sky for 30 minutes and then there was a problem with the engine so we had to go back to Manchester.
'I am not feeling good... So far it's not going too well but hopefully once we're back in the air it'll be OK… I hate flying as it is without actual stuff going wrong.'
The plane which reached an altitude of 30,000ft and a ground speed of about 430 knots around a half-hour into the flight before it began turning around over the Irish Sea because it experienced what airline officials termed "maintenance issue".
Airline officials who identified the flight as flight AA211 said its team was going 'get everything squared away and be wheels up again as soon as possible'.
sara a passenger on board the flight tweeted about the situation, he tweets read:
'We were in the sky for 30 minutes and then there was a problem with the engine so we had to go back to Manchester.
'I am not feeling good... So far it's not going too well but hopefully once we're back in the air it'll be OK… I hate flying as it is without actual stuff going wrong.'
American airline flight from Manchester enroute New York turns back, find out why...
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April 28, 2017
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