At about 08:10 FlyBe flight BE3123, (Dash8 G ECOC) touched down on runway 23L, eventually coming to a stop right in front of me followed by two fire trucks and several support vehicles. It turned round and made its way at a slow but steady pace back to the terminal, followed closely by the two fire trucks who passed the escort over to another two tenders on the taxi-way between runways.
There were no obvious signs of what the problem was, but checking on Flightradar24, it would appear that the aircraft departed Manchester at 06:46 and quite early in the flight turned back and circled near Buxton/Maccclesfield before eventually touching down again at 08:10.
Here are some of the photos I took - several are really grainy because in my excitement I had the camera set to 1/1600 at 5.6 and auto ISO and forgot to change the settings. ISO was in some cases 6400.
On the approach you can see how windy it was by the angle of the aircraft:
Flybe Dash8 G ECOC 1 by Paul Zietsman, on FlickrTouchdown:
Flybe Dash8 G ECOC 2 by Paul Zietsman, on FlickrFire tenders in the background:
Flybe Dash8 G ECOC 3 by Paul Zietsman, on FlickrFire tenders 4 and 2 follow up behind G ECOC:
Flybe Dash8 G ECOC 4 by Paul Zietsman, on FlickrG ECOC turns round:
Flybe Dash8 G ECOC 5 by Paul Zietsman, on FlickrFire truck 4 waits for G ECOC to pass:
Flybe Dash8 G ECOC 6 by Paul Zietsman, on FlickrFire truck 2 gets ready to slip in beside fire truck 4:
Flybe Dash8 G ECOC 7 by Paul Zietsman, on FlickrImpromptu meeting?:
Flybe Dash8 G ECOC 65 by Paul Zietsman, on FlickrOff to the Terminal:
Flybe Dash8 G ECOC 8 by Paul Zietsman, on FlickrThanks for looking.
