Passengers were stuck in a queue of planes for hours at Manchester Airport today after a flight broke down. Customers on board Cathay Pacific, TUI and Brussels flights were sat on the taxiway for hours before their flights were later cancelled and they disembarked.
The Manchester Evening News understands delays were caused after a Cathay Pacific flight suffered a malfunction on its approach to the runway. Behind it was a Brussels airlines flight to Brussels and a TUI flight to Cape Verde.
Passengers took to Twitter to complain they had been sat on their aircraft for as many as four hours before they were later disembarked and the flights were cancelled. It is understood that the Brussels airlines and TUI flights were stuck behind the Cathay Pacific plane and had no way of moving.
