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22.01.2024 - 13:36 / insider.com / Airlines
Hundreds of passengers ended up hundreds of miles away from their destinations as planes were caught in a storm across the UK and Ireland on Sunday.
Numerous flights were forced to divert to different countries after landing proved too difficult.
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For example, a Ryanair flight from Manchester, in northwest England, was supposed to cross the Irish Sea on a 160-mile journey to Dublin, but instead had to turn south and land in Paris — nearly 500 miles away.
This is a crazy diversion. Manchester to Dublin, diverting to Paris! #FR555
#StormIsha pic.twitter.com/omjKCaTqzk
Nicola Bardon, a reporter from the Irish Sun who was on the flight, said on X that what was supposed to be a 45-minute trip instead took 9 hours.
There was a similar situation for a Ryanair flight from Dublin to Edinburgh, about 200 miles apart. After circling over the Scottish capital it diverted to Cologne, Germany — 540 miles away.
But nobody appeared to end up further away from their destination or origin than passengers on Ryanair Flight 5911. It reached Dublin after taking off from the Canary Islands, but diverted 640 miles away to Bordeaux in southern France. That's the same distance as New York City to Indiana.
Ryanair flight #FR5911 from Lanzarote to Dublin diverted to... Bordeaux
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