Weather & Technical Diversions, Delays & Cancellations

[Matt995]

Three weather diversions today

TUI 788 from Bridgetown
Aer Lingus AT76 from Dublin
Ryanair 737H also from Dublin

all Bristol diversions, also saw an A319 Glasgow to Bristol divert to us too

 

[Kevin Farnell]

Jet2 B737-800 (G-DRTY, LS272, ALC - LBA) diverted into BHX, landing at 17:35. Due to depart back to LBA at18:30.

 

[David_itl]

Albastar EC-NIF operating MXP-MAN AP1223 diverted in this morning.

 

[Westland Wessex HC2]

Jet2 EXS74MP G-JZBO From Antyala To BHX currently Squawking 7700 and turned back just past Nuremburg and has diverted straight into Prague, appears to have landed safely 1740GMT

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[Kevin Farnell]

The important thing, is that it has landed safely. Squawk 7700 can be either a technical or medical emergency. If it's a medical emergency, then it's likely that it will continue it's journey fairly soon (as long as crew aren't out of hours). A technical issue may take longer.

[EDIT] - FR24 is showing a departure time from Prague of 19:29.

 

[Matt995]

The important thing, is that it has landed safely. Squawk 7700 can be either a technical or medical emergency. If it's a medical emergency, then it's likely that it will continue it's journey fairly soon (as long as crew aren't out of hours). A technical issue may take longer.

[EDIT] - FR24 is showing a departure time from Prague of 19:29.

medical emergency, beleive ambulances met the aircraft on the ground at Prague, now back on route to Birmingham

 

[rollo]

Two Cardiff weather diversions today.

Ryanair 737H from Dublin
TUI 737H from Malaga

 

[GliderPilot]

Crazy morning weather-wise from about 07:15 to 08:15, departures and arrivals held with a strong weather system passing over the top of the airport.

Diversions away from BHX so far:

EZY15ZW G-EZDL A319 Joined hold at MAN but diverting LIV
EWG3HX D-AGWF A319 Diverting STN
EJU82CH OE-LQB A319 Diverting LUT
RYR85ZZ EI-DYL B738 Diverting EMA
EZS1571 OE-IJU A320 Diverting LIV

Arrivals and Departures have now restarted so that'll be the end of the diversions for now, will be interesting to see how many of those aircraft ferry back to BHX or go back to their initial departure airport.

 

[mullion]

Take it that it was heavy rain,have just taken dog for a walk up here in Stockport and the wood near us is more like a boating lake but ok now

 

[GliderPilot]

Take it that it was heavy rain,have just taken dog for a walk up here in Stockport and the wood near us is more like a boating lake but ok now

Yeah, I think so, the weather radar shows a mega system moving through BHX and surrounding areas at that time. I have seen others on different sites saying pilots were reporting 40-knot gusts. Whilst there's not much wind activity here on the ground (I'm not that far away from BHX) I can imagine in a weather system like that it is a very bumpy ride trying to descend through it to get on the deck, combine that with extremely poor visibility through the rain it becomes quite easy to image why they held all movements until it has passed. Good work all around, Safety comes first always

 

[mullion]

Sound loveley doesn`t it just had a look at rainfall history and it looks as if you really copped it

 

[BlueManc]

G-EZDL's knuckleduster holding pattern.
View attachment 30385

 

[GliderPilot]

G-EZDL's knuckleduster holding pattern.
View attachment 30385

I was watching this one as it was happening. I'm genuinely curious as to who is commanding that pattern, are the flight crew manually flying that, are they putting those headings into the autopilot to stay near the airport, are they being assigned headings by whoever they're being controlled by at the time or... Never seen anything like it, they usually hold at a fixed point in elongated orbits or just bounce between different headings like EI-DYL and D-AGWF did. Quite a unique one

 

[Westland Wessex HC2]

EXS42GU/LS1266 G-SUNB A21N Tenerife to Bhx squawked 7700 due to smell of burning in the cockpit and diverted to Faro just landed safely 1640GMT

 

[Kevin Farnell]

TAF for tomorrow is indicating low vis -

Issued 3h 51m ago - all times local

From Tuesday 18:00 till Wednesday 18:00:
Wind variable 3kt. Visibility 10km or more. Clouds scattered 3000ft.
Becoming from Tuesday 21:00 till 0:00 next day:
Visibility 6000m.
Becoming from Wednesday 0:00 till 3:00:
Visibility 4000m. mist. Clouds broken 600ft.
Temporarily from Wednesday 0:00 till 10:00: Clouds broken 200ft.
With 40% probability from Wednesday 4:00 till 9:00: Visibility 300m. fog. Vertical visibility 0ft.
Becoming from Wednesday 7:00 till 10:00:
Visibility 6000m. No significant weather. Clouds broken 1000ft.
Becoming from Wednesday 10:00 till 12:00:
Visibility 10km or more. Clouds broken 2500ft.

Could cause some problems.

 

[Kevin Farnell]

FR24 shows Bombardier Global 6000 (9H-NBB, EAU35B) diverted into BHX from BOS - LTN at 04:08 this morning.

 

[jfy1999]

Lufthansa flights will be cancelled tomorrow and Friday.

It’s unfortunate to see the state of affairs at one of our longest serving airlines…

 

[mullion]

Another strike? it`s worse than France

 

[Kevin Farnell]

FR24 is showing SAS CRJ-900 (EI-FPB, SAS2533) has diverted back to CPH, having got as far as Denmark. It's showing an ETD from BHX of 11:45, delayed from 09:50.

 

[BlueManc]

Bristol struggling.
G-TUMS TOM2TL Max
G-UZMF EZY34AY A321NX

Heading your way