Private jet blocking Tenerife runway sparks flight diversion nightmare for thousands of passengers

In the loop: Flightpath of easyJet flight 3201 from Edinburgh to Tenerife, which diverted to Las Palmas - (Flightradar24)

Thousands of passengers had their flights diverted and delayed after a private jet blocked the runway at the main airport in Tenerife.

The plane landed at Reina Sofía airport in the south of the island around 5.45pm on Thursday (2 January). It suffered a technical fault that left it immobilised on the runway. Airport staff took several hours to tow the plane, during which 20 incoming flights were diverted – 13 of them from the UK.