Just a few days after Storm Kathleen passed through, the UK has been subject to yet another storm. Named by the French meteorological service, Storm Pierrick, a heavy low pressure system brought torrential rain and strong gusty winds with coastal areas of the UK being hit especially hard.
Manchester saw heavy rain and a strong wind from the North West with gusts of up to 40 knots as well as plenty of turbulence and windshear as reported by pilots arriving on 23R.
As a result, there were a total of 8 Go Arounds during the 6 hours I was filming with most sue to windshear and a couple a result of unstable approaches on short final.
GO AROUNDS
Lufthansa A320 D-AIWE LH942 From FRA:
Unstable, landed second attempt
Buzz B738 SP-RKL FR6839 From Prague:
Unstable, landed second attempt
Jet2 B738 GJZHW LS832 From PMI:
Windshear, landed second attempt
easyJet A20N G-UZLF U22164 From AMS:
Winshear, positioned for second attempt
EgyptAir A21N SU-GFS MS781 From CAI:
Windshear, landed second attempt
easyJet A20N G-UZLF U22164 From AMS:
Winshear, diverted to Liverpool LPL
Ryanair B38M EI-IHM FR9047 From TPS
Windshear, landed second attempt
Jet2 B738 G-GDFF LS876 From FAO
Windshear, landed second attempt
This was definitely a difficult day for the crews operating the aircraft, the ground operations team turning them round and the air traffic controllers keeping them all safe. Not to mention the countless staff behind the scenes ensuring that this storm presented the least amount of disruption as possible.
It was also a difficult day for me to try and keep the camera equipment as dry as possible and to stop it all blowing into the many large puddles that had formed at the pub.
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