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Bristol Post
Bristol Post
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Tristan Cork

Bristol Airport: Travellers' ordeal as police and firefighters called to diverted plane that 'bounced off' the runway

Passengers on a flight that had to abort a landing at Bristol Airport have spoken of their ordeal as the plane 'bounced hard' off the runway and had to divert to Birmingham.

The passengers on board a TUI flight from Cape Verde to Bristol endured a 20-hour ordeal which involved delays at the airport, a frightening aborted landing, the pilots sending an emergency code, being stuck for hours on board the plane on the runway in Birmingham, all three emergency services being called on board to deal with ill or angry passengers and eventually a coach back to Bristol a day after they were supposed to arrive.

The journey on board the Boeing Dreamliner was supposed to begin early on Tuesday evening with a flight back to Bristol from Cape Verde, a holiday destination off the coast of West Africa.

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