The Tui Boeing 787 was flying from Cancun in Mexico to Manchester in December 2023 when the bad weather forced it to divert to East Midlands airport, according to a report from Air Accident Investigation Branch (AAIB).
However, the aircraft was turned away from East Midlands because of “capacity constraints” so the pilot tried instead to land at Birmingham airport, only for its first attempt to be abandoned owing to windshear.
Despite the Tui pilot declaring a “mayday” emergency because it was running out of fuel, another aircraft was then cleared to land first at Birmingham.
