A Ryanair passenger jet was forced to abort its landing moments after touching down in a popular Spanish holiday destination, video captured by air traffic controllers has revealed.
Footage allegedly captured from the control tower shows the plane lurching from side to side as it attempted to land at Tenerife South Airport during a storm last Thursday.
The flight deck was forced to abort its final approach due to what controllers described as a ‘shear-related glitch’.
The pilot quickly executed an apparent ‘go-around’ manoeuvre, which sees an aircraft begin a climb back into the air instead of landing.
A go-around manoeuvre is initiated when conditions are deemed unsafe for landing.
Spain‘s State Meteorological Agency (AEMET) says adverse weather impacted airports across the Canary Islands – including Tenerife South and Gran Canaria – on Thursday.
Several missed approaches were recorded throughout the day due to strong tailwinds, opposing runway conditions and wind shears, Canarian Weekly reports.
A wind shear, which caused the pilot in Tenerife to abort landing, refers to a sudden change in speed or velocity over a short distance. Meteorologists say they are most often caused by small, yet intense storm bursts.
Footage captured from the control tower at Tenerife South Airport on Thursday shows how the flight deck was forced to abort its final approach due to a ‘wind shear-related glitch’
The plane was lurching from side to side as it attempted to land during a storm
The pilot quickly executed an apparent ‘go-around’ manoeuvre, which sees an aircraft begin a climb back into the air instead of landing. A go-around manoeuvre is initiated when conditions are deemed unsafe for landing
‘This is how a shear-related glitch looks from the Tenerife South control tower,’ Spanish air traffic controllers wrote as they shared the footage online.
The controllers, in a series of comments on X, revealed that when a wind shear occurs, the crew will inform them that they are ‘executing a go-around’.
‘There’s a published missed approach manoeuvre, so, in principle, we know what they’re going to do. And if we need to give them alternative instructions, we give them those too,’ the controllers explained.
Air traffic control will then ask the crew what there intentions are, noting that they ‘basically have three options’.
Crew can either ‘try again, divert to an alternate airport, or hold while they decide what to do’, the controllers added.
‘Based on that, we guide them according to their request. Often, they land without problems on the second attempt,’ they concluded.
Spanish air traffic control noted that ‘several glitches were recorded’ on Thursday due to wind shears.
The controllers, in their posts, did not report any serious incidents or injuries.
MailOnline has approached Ryanair for comment.
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