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Glasgow Live
Glasgow Live
National
Craig Williams

Glasgow-bound Jet2 flight from Faro diverts 500 miles to Alicante

A Jet2 flight bound for Glasgow from Faro in Portugal was forced into a 500-mile diversion to Spain yesterday.

The flight, which left around 11am from the Algarve, was due to touch down at Glasgow Airport around 2.30pm yesterday afternoon.

Flight tracking site FlightRadar24 show the plane performing a U-turn in midair just over an hour into the flight as it passed A Coruña in the north of Spain, before the flight then travelled across the country and over Madrid onto Alicante.

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