Three airplanes had quite the time trying to touch down in treacherous weather at airport's throughout England Thursday morning The Daily Mail reported.
A YouTube video captured the action on video of a Brussels Airlines Bombardier Dash 8 Q400, an Emirates Boeing 777 attempting to descend back onto the ground. Another easyJet flight going from London to Gasgow could not land after two tries, one each in Scotland, and Glasgow.
'I'm feeling really lucky to be alive," Hazel Bedford, a cancer research worker in the United Kingdom who was on the Glasgow flight told The Mail. "We took off as normal, the captain came over the PA and said there was a chance it could be a bit bumpy north of the border and there could be some delays while landing. But we got further north and suddenly everything started shaking and bumping, we were going up and down, up and down, like a roller coaster. It looked like we were going to land as normal and were just above the buildings when we were suddenly in full climb again."
'We came into land in Edinburgh and again the same, it felt like we we're hitting big air pockets and dropping huge distances. We were 10ft off the ground and being buffeted from side to side - and the same thing happened; we abandoned the descent and went into full climb. We were 10ft off the ground and being buffeted from side to side. An awful lot of people were being sick. An awful lot of people were being sick but the plane, it was incredibly quiet. When cabin crew said we're going to Manchester, people started to realize this was serious. All I could think of was my new year's resolution this year, which was to write my own will, and I haven't done it. It was that frightening. I was absolutely terrified.'
The pilot originally planned to touch down at the Edinburgh airport, but continued high winds forced the crew to divert to Manchester.
'EasyJet would like to apologize to passengers for any inconvenience caused and the passengers will be flying onwards to Glasgow shortly with a number opting to take transport back to Gatwick instead," an easyJet spokesman told The Mail in a statement. The safety of passengers and crew is easyJet's highest priority."
